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Banderas wins Cannes 'best actor' as Almodovar alter ego

Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas has portrayed Zorro and Pablo Picasso but he is above all the go-to actor of Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar, who launched his hugely successful film career in Spain in the early 1980s.

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Penelope Cruz puts 'torture' of early work behind her

Spanish Oscar winner Penelope Cruz said Wednesday that putting a firewall between acting and her private life -- even when working with husband Javier Bardem -- had put a stop to the "torture" of her early years in the industry.

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At last! Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote film will premiere at Cannes (20 years after project was started)

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will close the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, hitting the big screen nearly two decades after the director first started the project.

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Spanish director wins Cannes prize for car park love story

An unlikely contender triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday evening.

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Almodóvar proves Cannes favourite with latest film

The Spanish film director's latest film is competing for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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'Picasso was never like a real grandfather to us'

As a child, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter Marina often found herself shut out of his sumptuous Cannes villa "La Californie". Four decades after his death, the gates of the house she inherited, along with thousands of his art works, are always promptly opened to visitors.