Broken Embraces, “ravishing.” Cruz, “exquisite.”

(click to supersize the superstars)

From Screen Daily:

The critics are in rapture again. Returning to the noir territory of Bad Education, Almodovar casts his adored muse Penelope Cruz in Broken Embraces, a 1980s-set melodrama. Sheer, luxuriant noir all the way Рapart from a brief Women on the Verge-style film-within-a-film РBroken Embraces is a ravishing film from the Spanish maestro, a glowing tribute to the genre, and one to delight his fans and film buffs everywhere, althouth the wider audiences of Volver are less secure. Cruz is exquisite. And Almodovar is nipping at the heels of Audiard and Campion in Screen International’s Critic’s Jury who are again tossing around perfect four stars as if they were confetti: as it stands, Pedro is at 32, Campion 33 and Audiard 34 out of a possible 40. Rarely, if ever, has Screen’s jury awarded this many this highly.

Thanks to sartre for the link. Penelope and Pedro pose for paparazzi after the cut.