When I was in Zaragoza, at university, I fell in love with a neighbor who I met in the elevator of the rental apartment. She was the daughter of the owner of the apartment and I never dared to say a word to her. And then I discovered that she was an actress. Yes, it turned out that that girl with long raven hair was dating someone who is now her husband in Jamón jamón. Of course, my neighbor was not Penelope Cruz. But she looked so much like her... And since for me she was the original, good old Pe became a replica of my neighbor.
So the Penelope Cruz movies reminded me for a while of that unapproachable girl from my college days. Until forgetfulness turned the page and I was able to focus on Penelope's filmography without major very particular conditioning factors. Overall, I wouldn't have a chance with Pe either because by Tom Cruise I had picked it up.
Yes, I land and I start with his movies. Because at this point our most international actress has a lot to choose from in this attempt to select the best of her career. From more romantic tapes to appearances as the Almodóvar girl or interesting appearances in Hollywood. Let's go there with the best of my neighbor.
Top 3 recommended movies of Penelope Cruz
The girl of your eyes
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Being Spanish is not the same as convincingly playing some markedly stereotyped, traditional character with intense roots. Of course, it is precisely a double interpretation of Penélope Cruz in Macarena Granada and of Macarena Granada in what the Nazis wanted to see from her as a woman of Spanish race who would dazzle them with that witchy charm that they could associate with Spanishness with the folkloric point. shift.
Between the humorous and the tragic, the journey of Macarena, and the rest of the team that moves through that Berlin that was presented to the world as the epicenter of the disaster, is presented to us as disparate polarized impressions with the excuse of cinema. If it is that the cinematographic can be an excuse, tell Goebbels.
An undeniable point of acid humor as an introduction to that memory of so many victims of madness. Fear and hope, Spanish picaresque towards survival. A cast of first-rate actors who play actors in crazy and disturbing situations in that world leaning into the abyss of terror.
Back
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:the mood of Almodóvar It is almost never free of other types of messages beyond laughter. In this film the script apparently breaks towards the fantastical or the strange, but returns forcefully to the vivid realism overloaded with light and color where everything is over-impressed.
And, the many times protagonist of his films, Penélope Cruz, adapts with that chameleonic vision that is more gift than anything else. Because when a certain histrionics is needed, Penelope rounds it off with the verisimilitude of her performance. And when mimicry is sought in the most compromising situation, she knows how to lead us with subtlety.
Back It is not a surreal comedy, although it sometimes seems so. Living and dead coexist without fanfare, causing hilarious situations or intense and genuine emotion. It is a film about the culture of death in my native Mancha. My countrymen live it with an admirable naturalness. The way in which the dead continue to be present in their lives, the richness and humanity of their rites means that the dead never die. Back destroys the clichés of black Spain and proposes a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white, spontaneous, fun, intrepid, supportive and fair Spain.
everybody knows
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Changing the register a bit, in Penélope Cruz's extensive journey we also find disturbing stories like this one. A thriller in which the actress embroiders her role at the epicenter of suspense. Laura travels with her family from Buenos Aires to her hometown in Spain to attend her sister's wedding. What was going to be a brief family visit will be disrupted by unforeseen events that will shake the lives of those involved.
Not because the issue of kidnapping or disappearance is hackneyed is no longer an essential argument to compose a relentless story that shows us the vertigo of fatality. Everything that Pe and his co-star Javier Bardem experience in the development of the plot brings us closer with the unsettling proximity of a scene that is too close.
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