Venice Film Festival to Open with Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Madres Paralelas’

Festival director Alberto Barbera said: “I am grateful to Pedro Almodóvar for having given us the privilege of opening the film festival with his new movie, an intense and sensitive portrait of two women as they contend with a pregnancy with unpredictable consequences, women’s solidarity, and sexuality that is experienced in full freedom and without hypocrisy, all against the backdrop of a reflection on the ineluctable need for truth that is to be unwaveringly pursued.

Both are single and got pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant while 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 will create a very close link between the two, which chance will undertake to develop and complicate in such a decisive way that it will change the lives of both.

“This is a very welcome return to Venice in Competition for the recipient of our 2019 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, many years after the success ofthe movie that marked his definitive triumph on the international scene,” added Barbera.Almodovar claimed his first Oscar for best foreign film with 1999’s, which also won him best director at the Cannes Film Festival.

in Cannes, where it got the best screenplay award as well as the best actress award for the six actresses of the film, leaded by Cruz, who would eventually became the first Spanish actress nominated for an Academy Award for a Spanish language film.will be screened Wednesday September 1st, in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema . Madres paralelas is produced by El Deseo and will be distributed in Italy by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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