All About My Mother

All About My Mother

All About My Mother

Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña

All About My MotherAfter her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a young nun who turns out to be pregnant. Meanwhile, Manuela becomes a personal assistant for Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), an actress currently playing Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. All About My Mother traces the delicate web of friendship and loss that binds these women together. The movie is dedicated to the actresses of the world, so it's not surprising that all the performances are superb. Roth in particular anchors All About My Mother with compassion and generosity. But fans of writer-director Pedro Almodovar needn't fret--as always, Almodovar's work undermines conventional notions of sexual identity and embraces all human possibilities with bright colo

Head in the Clouds

Head in the Clouds: Charlize Theron

Head in the Clouds

Cast: Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz, Stuart Townsend, Thomas Kretschmann, Steven Berkoff

Academy Award(r)-winner Charlize Theron (Best Actress, Monster, 2003), Penélope Cruz (Vanilla Sky) and Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) star in this sweeping romantic saga of passion, betrayal and redemption. War clouds may be gathering over Europe, but Gilda (Theron) still chooses to live her life solely for pleasure. A restless free spirit, she has traveled the world in search of passion and excitement only to find it in a romantic ménage à trois with Guy (Townsend) andMia (Cruz), two friends with whom she shares an apartment in Paris. But when desire turns to guiltand both her lovers leave to fight in the Spanish Civil War, an abandoned Gilda vows never to see them again. Six years later, with liberation just days away, Guy returns to occupied Paris as a British spy, only to discover Gilda's the priveleged mistress of a German officer. Dismayed, Guy is nowforced to make the most difficult decision of his life: to let Gilda suffer a traitor's fate or rescu

Gothika

Gothika: Halle Berry

Gothika

Cast: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Bernard Hill

Gothika tells the story of Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry), a dedicated and successful criminal psychologist who awakens to find herself a patient in her own mental institution with no memory of the murder she's apparently committed. She soon learns that her husband was brutally murdered three days earlier, and the bloody evidence points directly at her. With no memory of that night except for a cryptic encounter with a mysterious young girl, the doctor's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Her claims of innocence are seen by her friends, colleagues and former patients as the beginnings of a deep descent into madness. As Miranda struggles to reclaim her sanity she soon realizes she's become the pawn of a vengeful spirit. Now she must quickly determine if she is being led further from her sanity or closer to the truth. Penelope Cruz plays Chloe, a hauntingly beautiful yet dangerously disturbed young patient. Robert Downey Jr. portrays Dr. Pete Graham, Berry's skeptical colleague and friend. And Charles S. Dutton plays Dr. Doug Grey, Berry's husband and chief administrator of the prison psychiatric ward.