Parallel Mothers

Name: Parallel Mothers
Genre: Drama
Released: 2021-10-08
Duration: 2 h 3 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rossy de Palma

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Timing: 2:3 (123 min)

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Video for the film Parallel Mothers — How's Your Baby Clip

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Release date

Country

Production

Genre

Budget

$11 000 000

Box office

$23 099 858

Website

https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/parallelmothers

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Actors

Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano, Carmen Flores Sandoval
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Scenario

Producer

Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García

Camera operator

José Luis Alcaine

Composer

Alberto Iglesias

Artist

Antxón Gómez

Audition

Eva Leira, Yolanda Serrano

Editing

Teresa Font
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Short description

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

What's left behind the scenes

The photograph mentioned by Penélope Cruz's character, depicting her mother and herself as a child on Ibiza, was taken by Spanish photographer Oriol Maspons (1928-2013). The image shown on screen was indeed taken on Ibiza in the summer of 1976.
A poster for the film 'Parallel Mothers' already appeared in one scene of Pedro Almodóvar's 2009 drama 'Broken Embraces'. Almodóvar was already working on its script at the time and had the poster printed.