Parallel Mothers

2021 [SPANISH]

Action / Adventure / Drama

28
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78% · 232 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 39765 39.8K

spanish civil war bisexual mother photographer pregnancy spanish civil war (1936-39)

Plot summary

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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Spanish 2.0
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2 hr 2 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cotta002-318-865119 8 / 10

A real heartbreaker in more than one way

Two women put in the same room in a hospital during labour form a friendship. One is a successful photographer the other is a lonely ignored single child of a famous actress.Janice is also trying to get the mass grave of her great grandfather exhumed but the Spanish civil war historical memory law is making that difficult.This is a great movie of complex situations and how two women have to deal with the realities of the cards life has dealt them.Penelope Cruz is up for an Oscar for this role, in my mind well deserved.
Reviewed by davidgee 8 / 10

Penelope Cruz, an incandescent presence

Almodovar's gift is to take a soap-opera storyline - two mothers and their babies - and give it a glossy sheen that makes it seem almost fresh. All the cast take their roles seriously. Penelope Cruz is the best of them; on screen she has an incandescence that reminds me of Sophia Loren's early films.There's a background story in which Cruz's lover is trying to get permission to excavate the grave of some villagers savagely killed in the early years of the Civil War. I rather wish that this had been given more screen time. The final scene of this movie is nothing less than magnificent.
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