Penelope Cruz tries to protect herself

“Penelope Cruz is fully aware of the Oscar talk for her performance in “Volver,” and she’s tuning it out.

The film unites her for a third time with master director Pedro Almodovar, a fellow Spaniard she describes as family and for whom she has served as an inspiring muse. In “Live Flesh” (1997), she played a prostitute who gives birth on a bus. In “All About My Mother” (1999), she played a pregnant nun with AIDS.”

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