Review: Penélope Cruz delivers in 'Parallel Mothers'
3 years ago

Review: Penélope Cruz delivers in 'Parallel Mothers'

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two women meet in a maternity ward and their lives become inextricably linked in Pedro Almodóvar’s gentle but penetrating “ Parallel Mothers ” It’s a film that on one level plays like a melodrama, with wild twists and turns fitting of soap opera cliffhangers. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, as Ana’s actor mother, is a particular standout and would fit right in with the complex mothers of another of the year's standouts, “ The Lost Daughter.” And it's a gorgeous showcase for Cruz. “Parallel Mothers” might not be as transcendently cinematic as his last, “Pain & Glory ” and perhaps part of that has to do with the fact that it was filmed during a pandemic, but its emotional core is no less powerful even if it’s a little more subtle. “Parallel Mothers,” a Sony Pictures Classics release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “some sexuality.” Running time: 122 minutes.

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First Take | Pada, Aquarium, Parallel Mothers — three tepid films in limelight
2 years, 8 months ago

First Take | Pada, Aquarium, Parallel Mothers — three tepid films in limelight

Firstpost  

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Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’: Digging up uncomfortable truths
2 years, 9 months ago

Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’: Digging up uncomfortable truths

The Hindu  

Limitless power drives people to do unimaginable things, rewrite the past, bury the present and control the future. Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers is, on the surface, about the complicated relationship between two mothers who give birth on the same day in the same hospital. But, Almodovar uses this rather melodramatic story to explore uncomfortable truths from his country's …

Parallel Mothers movie review: Pedro Almodovar’s film is an endlessly rewarding ode to cultural identity
2 years, 10 months ago

Parallel Mothers movie review: Pedro Almodovar’s film is an endlessly rewarding ode to cultural identity

Firstpost  

Language: Spanish One might assume that Pain and Glory was Pedro Almodovar’s most personal film. Despite the director’s typically soapy treatment, Parallel Mothers resists turning into the film we think it is. Once Janis invites Ana into her life, though, it’s no coincidence that the foundation approves her request for excavation of the mass grave – and her ancestor’s remains. …

Parallel Mothers review: A complex melodrama that brings new depth to Pedro Almodovar’s fearless women
2 years, 11 months ago

Parallel Mothers review: A complex melodrama that brings new depth to Pedro Almodovar’s fearless women

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Cert 15, 123 minutes Of all the women Penélope Cruz has …

Parallel Mothers re-teams Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar for film about motherhood and the Spanish Civil War
2 years, 11 months ago

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ABC  

The first time Penélope Cruz appeared in a Pedro Almodóvar film, her character gave birth on a Madrid public bus. The young actor's eight minutes on screen in Live Flesh forged a lifelong working relationship with the Spanish director, leading to Cruz vehicles Volver, Broken Embraces, and now Parallel Mothers, their eighth and most hypnotic film together. Most of Parallel …

For Penélope Cruz, the demands of ‘Parallel Mothers’ were difficult — but worth it
2 years, 11 months ago

For Penélope Cruz, the demands of ‘Parallel Mothers’ were difficult — but worth it

LA Times  

“When he sent me the script, I was blown away,” Penélope Cruz says of Pedro Almodóvar, her director and frequent collaborator. There wasn’t much to celebrate, but for Cruz, the news was good: Almodóvar, afforded time to write during the pandemic, called and told her he was working on the screenplay for what would become “Parallel Mothers.” And he wanted …

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz embrace the political and reclaim patriotism in ‘Parallel Mothers’
3 years ago

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz embrace the political and reclaim patriotism in ‘Parallel Mothers’

LA Times  

“Spain has a bad a relationship with its past,” Pedro Almodóvar said during a recent visit to Los Angeles. Within the context of how seldom the Spanish Civil War has been tackled in local productions, Almodóvar finds it curious that Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has made two acclaimed films set against its backdrop: “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth.” …

Review: ‘Parallel Mothers,’ with a superb Penélope Cruz, is Pedro Almodóvar at his best
3 years ago

Review: ‘Parallel Mothers,’ with a superb Penélope Cruz, is Pedro Almodóvar at his best

LA Times  

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the opening moments of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” a Madrid woman named Janis files a request to open a mass grave, sleeps with a hunky anthropologist and — cut to nine months later — gives birth to a baby girl. “Parallel Mothers” would make an especially …

Review: Penélope Cruz delivers in ‘Parallel Mothers’
3 years ago

Review: Penélope Cruz delivers in ‘Parallel Mothers’

Associated Press  

Two women meet in a maternity ward and their lives become inextricably linked in Pedro Almodóvar’s gentle but penetrating “ Parallel Mothers.” It’s a film that on one level plays like a melodrama, with wild twists and turns fitting of soap opera cliffhangers. But there is something deeper going on too, underneath the beautiful surface and base pleasures of plot …

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Best picture, best international feature — at the next Oscars, there should be some overlap
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LA Times  

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The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “What a poster!” one Twitter user wrote, while another added: “One …

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