The Film Benefit, a gala with which the prestigious institution raises funds for its Film Department.
The New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced this Tuesday that it will pay tribute to the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz in this year’s edition of the Film Benefit, a gala with which the prestigious institution raises funds for its Cinema Department.
“Penelope Cruz has amazed film audiences since 1992 as a compelling artist, both in action and adventure films and auteur films”, the MoMA Film Commissioner said in a statement, Rajendra Roy.
Roy further points out that, after the long list of collaborations with the filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, the role of Cruz in the feature film Parallel Mothers has cemented the actress as “an artist of global importance.”
MoMA also highlights that Cruz is the first Spanish actress to have won an Oscar, with which she was awarded for her role in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and underscores its recent Volpi award for best actress at the Venice Film Festival this year for Parallel Mothers, a film that will hit US theaters on December 24.
Before that date, MoMA will screen Almodóvar’s last film on December 15, which also closed the New York Film Festival last October.
To honor Cruz, the museum will present a series of five films starring the actress from November 19 to 30, such as Everybody knows (2018), Return (2006) the Blow (2001).
The MoMA Film Department, founded in 1935, has one of the largest international film collections in the US, with some 30,000 titles.
In previous years, Film Benefit has honored such figures as Tom Hanks, Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar or Tim Burton. (I)
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