The Festival de Cannes loves Pedro Almodovar and audiences seem to love his new film. At this morning’s first screening of “Volver,” some journalists in the Lumiere Theater clapped when his name came ...

The pleasures of the new Pedro Almodovar film “Volver,” and they are many, have less to do with deep wells of feeling than they do with mastery of craft and a magnificent sort of artifice. It’s odd, ...

On almost every level, Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver” proves you can go home again. The title — “Volver,” or “Coming Back” — suits not only the writer-director’s rich, nuanced comic drama of women coping ...

Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" walked away with five top honors at the 21st Goya Awards ceremony Sunday, leaving rivals "Alatriste," "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Salvador" to divvy up the remainder of the ...

Pedro Almodóvar is the most prominent Spanish filmmaker currently working. With the release of Volver, which won best screenplay at Cannes last year, along with best actress award for the entire ...

Pedro Almodóvar is one of the only directors who, a quarter-century into his career, remains an international brand name, his every new film anticipated and talked about the way Bergman’s or Godard’s ...

Pedro Almodovar is a top-tier writer and director making movies accessible to both cine-istas and, if they would show up, the average moviegoer. By that, I mean he makes the kind of features that get ...

Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" walked away with five top honors at the 21st Goya Awards ceremony Sunday. "Volver" star Penelope Cruz was the undisputed queen of the night. By Pamela Rolfe, The Associated ...

Awards: Winner of European Film Award for “Volver” and of Goya kudos for “El caballero Don Quixote” (2003), “El pajaro de la felicidad” (1993), “Belle epoque” (1992) and “Mad Monkey” (1989). Tools: A ...