Parallel Mothers
Film details
| Film Title | Parallel Mothers |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 123mins |
| Year | 2021 |
| Country | Spain, France |
| Director | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Actors | Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón |
| Language | Spanish |
| AKA | Madres paralelas |
| Showings |
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
As ever with Almodóvar’s films, to enter his world is a pleasure – even when we’re faced with pain and tough lessons.
★★★★★
Outwardly, this is a film about motherhood, but it only grazes the loving bonds and crushing responsibility that experience brings. Almodóvar is more interested in wider ramifications…
★★★★★
From opening frame to closing titles, this is resoundingly, exquisitely, the Penélope Cruz show. But with a lesson in Spanish history
★★★★
A film that’s bent by hardship and pierced by tragedy but it finally bows out with a message of hope.
★★★★
