Penelope Cruz, 52, exudes red carpet glamour in a plunging black gown as she turns heads at the San Sebastian Film Festival

Penelope Cruz exuded red carpet glamour in a plunging black gown as she turned heads at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday.The actress, 52, has been busy travelling around Europe promoting her many films in the last few months. And for her latest red carpet appearance, Penelope was a vision in a black ball gown for the screening of La Bola Negra. Penelope has a supporting role in the Spanish language film, whose title translates to The Black Ball.The Spanish epic, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, sees Penelope play a vibrant cabaret entertainer performing for Nationalist troops.It has been a busy few weeks for the actress who headed from Venice Film Festival, straight to Toronto.  Penelope Cruz, 52, exuded red carpet glamour in a plunging black gown as she turned heads at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday The actress has been busy travelling around Europe promoting her many films in the last few monthsShe promoted two movies that premiered at Cannes: La Bola Negra and Florian Zeller’s Bunker.  The actress broke down in tears as her new movie Bunker received the longest standing ovation so far of the 2026 Venice Film Festival. After watching the film, the audience rose to their feet for a 15-and-a-half-minute standing ovation.The lengthy response to Bunker is just two minutes shy of the longest standing ovation in recent Venice Film Festival history – a 17-minute applause for The Room Next Door in 2024. Bunker marks the ninth time Penelope and husband Javier Bardem have collaborated on screen and the movie is already receiving rave reviews, including a four-star write up from the Daily Mail’s Brian Viner.The psychological thriller sees the pair play married couple Sofia and Miguel. Architect Miguel’s 17-year marriage comes under strain after he accepts a morally ambiguous project to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire (Paul Dano).  And for her latest red carpet appearance, Penelope was a vision in a black ball gown for the screening of La Bola Negra Penelope has a supporting role in the Spanish language film, whose title translates to The Black Ball Penelope posed for pictures with directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi The Spanish epic, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, sees Penelope play a vibrant cabaret entertainer performing for Nationalist troopsMeanwhile, Sofia begins working with an American novelist, Jeremy Gray (Patrick Schwarzenegger).She also stars as Piña in the 2026 sex comedy-drama The Invite.Directed by Olivia Wilde, the film follows an uptight couple, Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Olivia), whose marriage is on thin ice. The couple extend a dinner invitation to their charismatic and sexually uninhibited upstairs neighbours, Piña (Penelope) and Hawk (Edward Norton).