The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late 20s ; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and Spanish actress Maribel Verdú in the leading roles.

The women who want to see the conflict finally ended use a trick to make their husbands comply: led by the Feminist Lisístrata ( Maribel Verdú ), they barricade themselves on the Acropolis, where the Athenian treasure is kept, and refuse to have sex with their husbands until peace is restored.

Maribel Verdú ( born Madrid 2 October 1970 ) is a Spanish actress.

The trend is being reversed with the recent screening of productions such as the € 30 million film Alatriste ( starring Viggo Mortensen ), the Academy Award winning Spanish film Pan's Labyrinth ( starring Maribel Verdú ), Volver ( starring Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura ), and Los Borgia ( starring Paz Vega ), all of them sold-out blockbusters in Spain.

As he meets each of the first three one by one, he falls in love and has sex with each of them, determining to marry, but with each one a complication arises: Clara, played by Miriam Díaz-Aroca ( a widow who only recently lost her husband and who seeks solace with Fernando ); Violeta, played by Ariadna Gil ( a lesbian who is only attracted to Fernando when he is dressed as a woman for a costume ball ); and Rocío, played by Maribel Verdú, ( a social climber who is about to marry into a royalist family for the security it would provide, and who only momentarily succumbs to Fernando's charms ).

Non-directors have obtained less international notability like the cinematographer Néstor Almendros, the Art director Gil Parrondo, the screenwriter Rafael Azcona, the actresses Maribel Verdú and, especially, Penélope Cruz and the actors Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem and Fernando Fernán Gómez have obtained significant recognition outside Spain.

These films show the close relationship between film and the traditional art nude in art in films such as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), by Terry Gilliam, where Uma Thurman poses as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, and Goya in Bordeaux ( 1999 ) by Carlos Saura, where Maribel Verdú poses as Goya's The Naked Maja.

Verdú was born María Isabel Verdú Rollán on October 2, 1970.

At a wedding, they meet Luisa ( Maribel Verdú ), the Spanish wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, and attempt to impress the older woman with talk of an invented, secluded beach called Boca del Cielo (" Heaven's Mouth ").

* Maribel Verdú as Luisa Cortés

Alejandro Sanz and Maribel Verdú in Sanz's music video, Lola Soledad.

Later Verdú said that her role in Amantes by Vicente Aranda marked a turning point in her screen career and has brought about a maturity as a performer.

Following the movie Pan's Labyrinth Verdú has been invited to be a part of the Academy in Hollywood.

Verdú has been nominated for the Goya Award on seven occasions.

Apart from her Goya Award, Verdú possesses two Ondas Awards and two Silver Frame awards ( between 7 nominations ) as Best Television Actress for the series Canguros and as Best Actress for The Blind Sunflowers by José Luis Cuerda, for which she also received her sixth Goya nomination.

Maribel Verdú has also been close to awards in category A film festivals, such as the Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2007, in the San Sebastián International Film Festival another casting partner of Verdú, Blanca Portillo, took the award for Best Actress in Seven Billiard Tables.

The story of the 2005 Spanish thriller Mar rojo, starring Maribel Verdú, begins with an armed robbery at a Fnac store in Barcelona.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

She's been in and out of my house for a dozen years now, although she's still a teen-ager who looks like a baby, she is getting married.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.

the other is the paramount importance in married life of deliberate and thoughtful self-control ''.

It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.

`` Almost everybody in the senior class is married '', students say dogmatically.

He is married to the former Audrey Knecht and has a daughter, Karol, 13.

He is married and the father of three children.

It is the equivalent of 8 per cent for an unmarried investor with more than $16,000 of income to be taxed, or for a married couple with more than $32,000 of taxed income.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

And, if a man is married, he will automatically be given a divorce ''.

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

The Mayan Palace course was designed by Pedro Guericia and an economical course called the Club de Golf Acapulco is near the convention center.

His tomb is in the monastery of San Pedro in Huesca.

His youngest son Pedro is also a musician.

Harbor activity is concentrated at Abidjan ( West Africa ’ s largest container port ), which has facilities that include a fishing port and equipment for handling containers, and San Pedro, a deepwater port that began operations in 1971.

* Port of San Pedro de Macoris is located on the Higuamo river.

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

* 1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.

* 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes ; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

Both Puerto Cortés, the country's largest port, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras's industrial capital, are located here, as is La Ceiba, the third largest city in the country.

* 1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.

** Pedro II of Brazil | Pedro II is deposed and Brazil becomes a republic.

* 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

Cruz is a friend of director Pedro Almodóvar, whom she has known for almost two decades and with whom she has worked on films.

On the basis of this premise, he is the person who from 1245 to 1250 became known as Pedro Hispano ( because he came from Hispania, the Iberian Peninsula ), and taught medicine at the University of Siena.

Pedro Jaime Martínez ( born October 25, 1971 in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic ) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher.

Although his officially registered birthplace is San Pedro de Macorís, Sosa was actually born in Consuelo.

In 1462 Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the oddly shaped formation Serra Lyoa ( Lion Mountains ).

King Pedro, being apprised of the fervent love borne him by Lisa, who thereof is sick, comforts her, and forthwith gives her in marriage to a young gentleman, and having kissed her on the brow, ever after professes himself her knight.

The epilogue has some resemblance to a segment of the famous play " La vida es sueño " ( Life is a dream, 1635 ), by the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

* January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated.