Parallel Mothers (15)
Venue: The Corn Hall
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, 2021, 2hrs 3mins, Spain/France, subtitled
With Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit,
Two women, Janis and Ana, meet 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 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 create a very close bond between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
"Almodovar delivers an emotional bundle of joy" ***** Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
