Magazine Madness ELLE USA: Penélope Cruz es la Madre Original

ELLE USA February 2024 

Ella es una joven monja embarazada que trabaja en un refugio en Todo Sobre Mi Madre de Pedro Almodóvar, ella interpreta un hermoso sueño en la película española Abre Los Ojos de Alejandro Amenábar de 1997; Ella es la madre original, ella es Laura Ferrari y ella es la increíble vista con Brad Pitt en el comercial de Chanel.

 

Alongside with Adam Driver at Michael Mann’s FERRARI, this is not Penélope Cruz’s debut to portrait a biographical figure, and certainly not her premiere “homage to a woman in a difficult situation”, still, Cruz felt the weight of “giving Laura Ferrari a public voice for the first time”, she arrives on screen bereaved, already grieving the loss of her never recover from. Relatively Laura is subdued for Cruz’s characters she has been through, while the sorrow reflected on getting dressed in every scene, making this film as a photonegative of Cruz’s works with Pedro Almodóvar, that built on primary colours. 

 

There’s a “back-and-forth dance between fiction and reality,” which Penélope Cruz realizes her hypersensitivity on “plays into a certain stereotype” of actors, but that doesn’t make it any less true, since she has been fighting for her traumatic memories with her long-lost sister from a tragic car accident. 

 

Cruz has been a mother under the public gazes before she became an actual mother. Almodóvar saw that strong, inevitable instinct of Cruz, either her motherhood character a divorce, abandonment, an unwilling or unfertile. 

 

Under the lenses of Photographer Zoey Grossman, by adapting the soft focus, which symbolize the subtle and sweet touch of Penélope’s personalities, according to the author Sloane Crosley, Cruz excels polka dots romper by BALMAIN, glittering evening dress by VERSACE or as global ambassador of House of CHANEL, she nails perfectly either on swim top, tweed suit or collection of fine jewelry. 

As for magazine cover photography, CHANEL No°1 travel size tube 5ml serum, 2023 limited edition of high lighters, Le Vernis Boy de CHANEL, No°5 body soap and CHANEL Exclusive Eau de Parfum 5ml are the tribute to this new face of CHANEL, while the addition of AESOP travel sizes tube 20ml and CHLOÉ brass triple rings and X pedant brighten up the rather bleaker autumn season. 

Having been a fan of Penélope Cruz since Pedro Almodóvar’s Todo Sobre Mi Madre, it’s a great loss of her absence at FERRARI premiere of the 80^th Venice Film Festival. While having my holiday in Taiwan, uncontrollably, I supported an overpriced ELLE USA (420 TWD), merely in order to collect another glimpses on the fragile yet elegant of Los Abrazos Rotos.