Continuing her long association with Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz plays Janis a world-class photographer who becomes pregnant after a night of passion with Arturo (Israel Elejalde) a forensic archaeologist. She enlists his help to appeal to the government to excavate a mass grave site this possibly contains the remains of her family members. They were victims of fascist aggressors during the Spanish Civil War.

In the maternity ward, Janis meets Ana (Milena Smit) a young woman who is also there to deliver a baby. After sharing a room their lives become intertwined in a lifelong bond. After successful births that both leave the hospital to resume their lives. There is a mystery that is attached to this that plays out in a somewhat obvious fashion but the emotional focus of the film lies elsewhere.

The film is oddly paced with slow exposition until the final reel and then accelerating rather abruptly to its conclusion. You do feel attached to the participants by film’s end. In some ways it makes the final reveal feel that much more human. Our lives are rarely linearly modulated, more a series of ups and downs. The final send-off of Parallel Mothers is its most lasting element.

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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 traumatised. 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.

Starring Penélope Cruz, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers will be released in Australian cinemas January 27!
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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 traumatised. 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.

Starring Penélope Cruz, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, Parallel Mothers will be released in cinemas from January 27, 2022!
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