'Parallel Mothers' is notable storytelling from Pedro Almodóvar. Performances by Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit shine bright in a soap opera with significantly dramatic moments. Janis Martinez (Cruz) ...

Parallel Mothers (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring Penelope Cruz, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Rossy de Palma, Milena Smit, Daniela Santiago, Ainhoa Santamaria, Israel ...

Two years after delivering what many thought — or perhaps feared — to be a valedictory grace note with 2019’s “Pain and Glory” (and one year after the English-language short “The Human Voice” showed ...

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz make beautiful movies together. You watch their latest collaboration, “Parallel Mothers,” with simultaneous joy and regret: the former for the way in which the film ...

Only two years after collaborating on their sixth film together, Pain and Glory (2019), legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar and his favorite muse and actress, Penélope Cruz, are back again for ...

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During Hollywood's golden age, studios would regularly produce a steady supply of what would later be called "women's pictures." The lushly produced melodramas were vehicles for Bette Davis, Joan ...

Two expectant mothers about to give birth meet for the first time when they are paired together in a room in a Madrid maternity ward. It is a fateful meeting that will bind the two forever in ...

This review of “Parallel Mothers” was first published on Sept. 1 after it’s screening at Venice 2021. Two years after delivering what many thought — or perhaps feared — to be a valedictory grace note ...