Well, the 2021 Venice Film Festival line-up was announced early this AM, we already knew Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers” would be the opening night film, and just like that, the first teaser trailer for the film has arrived.
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“Parallel Mothers” stars Almodovar’s muse Penelope Cruz, but also Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rossy de Palma and Julieta Serrano. Almodóvar has made an entire career out of looking at mothers, but he’s strayed away from this topic in recent years.
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“With ‘Madres Paralelas,’ I return to the female universe, to motherhood, to the family,” he said last year about his return to the subject. “I speak of the importance of ancestors and descendants. The inevitable presence of memory. There are many mothers in my filmography; the ones that are part of this story are very different.”
PARALLEL MOTHERS is a drama that centers on three mothers, portrayed by Cruz, Gijón, and Smit. The film expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by turning his focus on imperfect mothers, in a departure from his prior work exploring mothers and motherhood.
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“Parallel Mothers” is scheduled to be released in Spain on 10 September 2021, by Sony Pictures Releasing International. In the U.S. Sony Pictures Classics have just revealed the movie is scheduled for a December 24, 2021 release date.