The Latest Breaking News from Pedro Almodóvar

Spanish star of films by Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro and Roberto Benigni, and a champion of leftwing causes

The Spanish actress was 78 at the time of her passing and had more than five decades of acting experience under her belt.

Roles in All About My Mother and Life is Beautiful cemented her status as one of Spain’s ‘most iconic’ actors

Emilia Peréz and The Room Next Door are both up for honours in prizes regarded as Oscars bellwethers

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore seem constrained in the Spanish director’s uneasy first English-language film, winner of this year’s Venice Golden Lion prize

Big Screen Spotlight | Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door is a thought-provoking look at love, death, and friendship

The legendary Spanish director on what he learnt about mortality from his new film, why he loves working with Tilda Swinton and how he has to cast Penélope Cruz in his next film

2/5 Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore are unsurprisingly excellent, but even they seem to be struggling to navigate such a didactic script

Letter signed by more than 250 cultural figures calls for comprehensive arms embargo and ‘an end to this horror’

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton give luxuriously self-aware performances as two old friends who are reunited in a doggedly mysterious drama

Every year the Spanish ministry of culture awards prizes for different artistic disciplines. From next year onwards, the country’s national bullfighting award will be withdrawn. The current Spanish minister of culture, the Barcelona-born Green politician Ernest Urtasun, supports the prohibition of what has long been known as Spain’s “national fiesta”.