Madonna & Penelope Cruz Honor Pedro Almodovar

Penelope Cruz (in Chanel) keeps wraps around director Pedro Almodovar at a special dinner party honoring him at Italian restaurant Casa Lever on the Upper East Side of New York City on Saturday (October 10).

The Paper- hosted celebration also brought out Beth Ditto from the indie rock band The Gossip.

Penelope and Pedro have worked together on four projects — 1997′s Live Flesh, 1999′s All About My Mother, 2006′s Volver and 2009′s Broken Embraces and The Cannibalistic Councillor.