C.hi loves cinema by Pedro Almodóvar will find again in Madres Paralelasbroadcast tonight at 21.15 on Sky Cinema Due, many of the elements dear to the director. Give her complex and out of the ordinary romantic relationships, from cooking to social criticism and historical notes on the Spanish Civil War.
Thanks to the remarkable interpretations of Penélope Cruz And Milena Smit Almodovar tells about motherhood in its most intimate aspects, without paternalism or cliché, but with the surrealist vein that distinguishes it.
Madres Paralelas: nominations, awards and screenings
At the Academy Awards ceremony Madres Paralelas arrived there with two big hopes: theOscar for Best Actress in a Leading Rolefor Penélope Cruz, and that for the best soundtrackcomposed by Alberto Iglesias. And if Hollywood from this point of view did not give satisfactions, Cruz had taken home, for the interpretation of Janisthe Coppa Volpi at the Venice Film Festival.
But the reasons for recovering this film, they definitely go far beyond the awards. Meanwhile, there is the interpretation of two phenomenal actresses who know each other in the delivery room and, a little by elective affinity and a little by chancethey find themselves indissolubly linked. And then there is the historical-political question.
Arturo (Israel Elejalde) and Janis (Penélope Cruz). (Sky)
The plot: Janis and Ana
Janis (Penélope Cruz) had a daughter with Arturo (Israel Elejalde), but the two are no longer together and she raises Cecilia, the little call like the grandmother to whom she is very attached, alone. Ana (Milena Smit) on the other hand is a teenager who has had a road accident. At first desperate, she then finds herself madly in love with the newcomer.
The plot gets tangled, as is classic in Almodovar’s direction, when Arturo raises Janis the doubt that her daughter, with such ethnic traits, is not his. Janis, who cares more about blood ties than anything else, begins to be tormented by doubt. At the beginning of the film, but then we almost forget there are so many things that happen, Janis in fact asks Arturowho is an archaeologist, to reopen a mass grave in his native country, where some seem to be buried disappeared of the Franco period, including his great-grandfather.
Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit are the two mothers, friends and lovers of Madres Paralelas. (Sky)
Just as the moment approaches when she can finally give her great-grandfather a proper burial, Janis discovers that her daughter, with such Latin features, not only is it not Arturo’s, but it’s not even his. The most plausible explanation is that there was an exchange with Ana’s daughter, who has died in the meantime.
Everything revolves around the truth
Janis, who doesn’t want to have any unfinished business even with a past she’s not to blame – she didn’t exist yet when the Francoists took away her great-grandfather and the other men in the country – he cannot tolerate having unfinished business in the present. Especially since Ana, who in the meantime has left home, has started working for her as a nanny and handyman. and she is also his mistress.
Madres Paralelasto all effects, it’s a film about honesty rather than motherhoodwhich is the means used to tell the inner turmoil of those who are unable to tell the truth for fear of losing someone they love very much, but then do so by facing the consequences.
In fact, what triggers the spring in her is linked not so much to her current situation, or to the story with Ana, but to the past of Spain, which the latter ignores. Madres paralelas it is in effect a film that is more political than sentimental.
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