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Stylish Penelope Cruz Attends Twice Born Photocall

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Hot actress Penelope Cruz attended a photocall for Twice Born during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. The Girl of Your Dreams star looked stylish and polished sporting a suit. Spanish beauty, Penelope Cruz was clad in a purple double-breasted blazer, styled with simple black pants from Emilio Pucci Fall 2012 Collection . The black collar is a striking contrast against purple. Very gorgeous, Penelope Cruz paired her look with black pumps . She chose to wear statement jewelry with her super stylish menswear-inspired look . Penelope Cruz rocked flawless makeup and stunning lip color. Her locks was styled in free-flowing waves, looked perfect for Summer fun. Stay connected with FashionFame.com and follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more latest celebrity news and fashion trends . Related Articles: Fashionfame is a member of the Zimbio Blogger Network . To read more of this member's work, please visit their blog at http://www.fashionfame.com ...

Twice Born: Toronto Review

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Emile Hirsch and Penelope Cruz The Bottom Line Penelope Cruz and Emile Hirsch play ill-matched in every sense lovers in Sergio Castellittos misguided romantic melodrama. Venue Toronto Film Festival (Gala) Cast Penelope Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Adnan Haskovic, Saadet Aksoy, Pietro Castellitto, Sergio Castellitto Director Sergio Castellitto Screenwriters Sergio Castellitto, Margaret Mazzantini TORONTO Italian actor-turned-director Sergio Castellitto s 2004 feature, Dont Move , logged some travel largely on the strength of Penelope Cruz s intense performance. But its in the best interests of everyone concerned that their second collaboration, Twice Born (Venuto al Mondo) which misuses Emile Hirsch as the other half of an ill-fated love story be denied a visa. Dripping with floridly phony dialogue that no actor should be forced to speak, this paternity mystery uses the Bosnian conflict as the manipulative backdrop to a preposterously overwrought and overlong melodrama. VIDEO: Toronto 201...

Penelope Cruz: Motherhood is 'revolutionary'

Penelope Cruz thinks becoming a mother was "revolutionary". The 'To Rome With Love' actress - who has 20-month-old son Leonardo with her husband Javier Bardem - claims motherhood completely changed her as a person from the very first second her son was born. The 38-year-old beauty told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "From the first second, you feel so much in love. It is a revolutionary experience. "That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second." However, the sexy Spanish star is adamant she won't be signing any magazine deals with her actor husband to show off their young son because the couple are determined to protect his privacy. Penelope scoffed: "I'm 100 percent against that. Children aren't a handbag. I want my son and my kids - if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. "The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work we do doesn't give anybody th...

Cruz: New film shows horror of war

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Friday Sep 14 2012 Penelope Cruz said she hoped her new film Twice Born would give people pause for thought about the reality of war. The Oscar-winning actress and mother stars with Emile Hirsch in director Sergio Castellitto's film set in Sarajevo against the backdrop of the Balkan Wars. Penelope said: "I knew a little bit and I remember seeing it in the news and I remember thinking this is happening not far away from us. "It's another thing that I'm proud of with this movie, is to make people remember that something like this happened very recently. Some of our cities, Sergio lives in Rome, I live in Madrid, it was a two hour plane, and horrible, horrible things were happening there. "It makes me think of what is happening right now in Syria and a lot of places - hell is there right now. "I know movies are not made to give a lesson, to teach anything, but they can bring up..." Asked what the lesson of the film was, Penelope said: "I think war...

Penelope Cruz says she'll keep making films in Spain

Spanish actress Penelope Cruz said at the Toronto International Film Festival that she will never stop making films in Spain and in Spanish, but that she also would like to play a character with a British accent and take on the role of a stereotypical California "valley girl". Cruz presented her latest film "Venuto al mondo" (Twice Born), an Italian-Spanish co-production directed by Sergio Castellitto and also starring Emile Hirsch, Adnan Haskovic and Saadet Aksoy, Thursday at the TIFF. "I love being part of projects like this, although I'll always want to keep working in my country and in Spanish. I'll never stop for many reasons. It's also quite refreshing to go back and work in my own language," Cruz said. "Because in this (film), as much as I loved it, it was a big challenge to shoot 70 percent of the film in English and the rest in Italian. But the English had to have an Italian accent. I love those challenges, but I can't say it ...

Hollywood Actress Profiles: Penelope Cruz

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New York, September 14, 2012 (TINN) Penelope Cruz has been acting since she was 16, debuting on television in the Spanish Media. Since then, shehas done a lot of work in Hollywood as well, including movies like Open YourEyes, the Girl of Your Dreams, Vanilla Sky, Blow etc. These are the movies thatdrew attention towards her and won her amazing critical acclaim. Penelope Cruz is known to be aversatile actress who has acted in a whole range of movies, such as Gothika,Sahara, Nine, Frida etc. She received her first Academy Award for BestSupporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. She has also received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Cruz happensto be the first Spanish actress to win the Academy Award! Cruz dated her Vanilla Sky co-starTom Cruise for three years. She also dated the actor Matthew McConaughey foraround a year. She married her Vicky Cristina Barcelona co-star Javier Bardemin 2007, with whom she has a son named Leonardo. She is involved with philanthropyas well. She ...

Penelope Cruz has an Angelina moment

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14 SEPTEMBER 2012 Spain's sexiest export Penelope Cruz went for maximum impact at the Toronto film festival, showcasing her voluptuous curves in apale pink gownwith a thigh high split. Theshowstopping look to promote new drama Twice Born was finished off with goldaccessories. CLICK ON PHOTO FOR FULL GALLERY She plays an Italian womanmaking a pilgrimageto Sarajevo with her teenage son, whose father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago. It wasn't hard for her to slip into character as the actress has a son with husband Javier Bardem and says motherhood has completely changed her. She told a British newspaper: "From the first second, you feel so much in love. It is a revolutionary experience. '"That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second." Her role required her to speak English with an Italian accent most of the time and also speak in Italianfor other scenes. "For me,"Penelope said. "That's anoth...