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Parallel Mothers is a 2021 drama film, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit and Israel Elejalde.
- 39 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon
- posts span Nov 4, 2021 to Nov 4, 2026
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40 of 40 · most liked firstReview [spoilers]: Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas) - Almodóvar, 2021. Pedro Almodóvar has always had something to say, but "Parallel Mothers" may be his most ambitious statement to date. This is a film that operates on multiple registers simultaneously: a motherhood story wrapped inside a love triangle wrapped inside a political warning so urgent it reverberates far beyond Spain's borders. The story of mothers and babies here is no mere melodrama. It's a direct metaphor for the mothers…
positive · AI labelView post →Oscar 4-Timer Club: Penelope Cruz Birthday Edition: 4/28/1974. Happy 51st Birthday! 2006 Volver 2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona (win) 2009 Nine 2021 Parallel Mothers Fiery Spanish star is so good, she's a contender with any new film. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Review / The Nightingale (2018). **The Nightingale (2018)** -Directed by Jennifer Kent (*Babadook*) Jennifer Kent's *The Nightingale* is a cold, hard look at colonialism, unflinching in its depiction of the brutality that empires are built upon. Set in 1825 Tasmania, it follows ClareAisling Franciosi), a young Irish convict, and Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), an Aboriginal tracker, through the wilderness as they pursue a British officer who has committed unspeakable atrocities. This is not…
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s a movie poster for PARALLEL MOTHERS (2021) in a shot in BROKEN EMBRACES (2009)!!!??!?!??!???? 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
neutral · AI labelView post →New work 'Not My Vocation', oil on canvas, Inspired by Parallel Mothers the 2021 film by Pedro Almodovar. The subject is Teresa Ferreras, played by Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. The title refers to her quote about marriage and motherhood. #parallelmothers #pedroalmodovar #teresaferreras #aitanasanchezgijon
neutral · AI labelView post →In no particular order (and yes some are more well known in film circles, maybe I should've ommited them, but you never know what the reader hasn't seen): Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - a comedic coming of age in Nazi Germany. Jojo and his imaginary friend, Hitler, face a complicated and rapidly changing world. The Mitchells versus the Machines, 2021 - animated family adventure for fun with the whole family. Rise of Leslie Vernon, 2006 - mocumentary following slasher killer Leslie Vernon. Bunny and…
neutral · AI labelView post →Late-stage Almodóvar is one of my favourite directors right now and The Room Next Door does not disappoint. The movie synthesizes the themes of aging and reminiscing youth of Pain and Glory and the more overt political messaging of Parallel Mothers in a quiet but touching package.
positive · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 8pm, Quantum of Solace on ITV1. At 9pm, John Wick 2 on ITV2 or For A Few Dollars More on 5Action. At 10.20pm, Bridget Jones's Diary on BBC1. At 11.10pm, Parallel Mothers on BBC4. At 11.15pm, Midnight Run on Film4. At 11.50pm, Man Up on BBC1. At 12.50am, Fallen Leaves on BBC2 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →The Watermelon Woman (1996) Parallel Mothers (2021) The Hunt (2012) The Vampire Lovers (1970) I swear I don't automatically like every sapphic movie but it sure helps
positive · AI labelView post →One thing I loved about Pedro Almodóvar's film Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers was how it was simultaneously a story about two women who unexpectedly become single mothers, and a generational meditation on Spain's unresolved history re: the Civil War and Franco's oppression.
positive · AI labelView post →I saw it was high up your list!! I think the only other Almodovar film that really underwhelmed me was Parallel Mothers. Otherwise, his colours and humour and earthy sexuality are like catnip to this film fan (even if I can be stingy in my ratings of his work 🤣🤷♂️).
negative · AI labelView post →Parallel Mothers is an excellent choice tbh. Penelope Cruz is absolutely exquisite in that film.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ European Film Parallel Mothers (2021) Spain Ostensibly about two unwed mothers who meet in the maternity ward for the delivery of their babies of absent fathers. Despite their disparate ages of 40+ and 20+ they form a bond and promise to keep in touch. 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →Controversial viewpoint alert but Parallel Mothers one of Pedro’s weakest films - too unfocused, and you could just really feel him straining against making his first post-pandemic film. Still think Pen would’ve been an amazing winner that year (tho should’ve been Kristen OBVI) but the film is meh.
negative · AI labelView post →A surprising current front runner for Penélope Cruz's best of career performance in the overall category. Which film does she have the most votes for right now? The Hi-Lo Country Blow Volver Parallel Mothers Answer in the comments #sassawards #botd #moviesky #actorsky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →In its Contemporary Spanish Film Series with Butler University (@butleru.bsky.social), the Kan-Kan Cinema & Restaurant (@kankancinema.bsky.social) will screen Pedro Almodóvar's PARALLEL MOTHERS at 5p Monday. Find both Mitch Ringenberg's review of the film and a ticket link in the reply.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the extremely powerful Parallel Mothers (heavy duty film alert) and am left with one puzzle. How come Penelope Cruz's character, apparently a very successful professional, was using a 2006 iMac in 2018?
positive · AI labelView post →Did you see Parallel Mothers? Absolutely crazy film
neutral · AI labelView post →I popped Parallel Mothers (2021) into my DVD player and the trailers are a peek into another world. Middlebrow mid-budget movies with aging stars; paint-by-numbers documentaries; charming little foreign movies. None of which I’ve ever heard of!
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought this today and a) it has Janis’ (Parallel Mothers) flat on it - which is GOALS and I’ve wanted to know where it since I saw the film b) it turns out I accidentally walked just past the building earlier???? 😳
positive · AI labelView post →I've been a bit ambivalent about Pedro Almodovar films up to now, but I watched Parallel Mothers (2021) the other day & and loved the way he transposed historic trauma onto the present day family, making the film a whole lot more than I thought it was going to be. Masterful stuff.
positive · AI labelView post →I agree, but seeing a struggling waitress wear Miu Miu in Parallel Mothers did take me out of the film. The Human Voice felt kind of spoiled by brands, too. Better than having no film at all, but…
neutral · AI labelView post →Pretty much any Almodóvar film will have fantastic jumpers in it (for the ladies, but particularly P Cruz). It was the best thing about Parallel Mothers, IIRC.
negative · AI labelView post →It's actually a good film. Not his best work of course, but best since Parallel Mothers (again, not as good)
positive · AI labelView post →Shit i've been watching... Parallel Mothers, 2021 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday May 14, 2026. https://letterboxd.com/groschi/film/parallel-mothers/ #Film #Movies #Cinema #CineMastodon @film
positive · AI labelView post →It reminded a little of the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers, at least the ending. But that is an excavation of the past filled with melodrama and not just thematic ideas.
positive · AI labelView post →After watching it, my mind for some reason went to Almodovar's Parallel Mothers, despite being a very different kind of film - perhaps because both explore the theme of honesty in relationships vs comforting lies.
positive · AI labelView post →Parallel Mothers: Ghosts That Won't Be Buried Pedro Almodóvar has always had something to say, but "Parallel Mothers" may be his most ambitious statement to date. This is a film that operates on multiple registers simultaneously: a motherhood story wrapped inside a love triangle wrapped inside a political warning so urgent it reverberates far beyond Spain's borders. The story of mothers and babies here is no mere melodrama. It's a direct metaphor for the mothers whose children were…
positive · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieFeatures #ParallelMothers #PedroAlmodovar This Penélope Cruz 2021 Drama With 96% on RT Deserves Your Full Attention http://dlvr.it/TMX3Cf
neutral · AI labelView post →On the flight home from California, I watched Almodóvar's "Parallel Mothers" and was overpowered by it. Its feminism versus fascism, then and now, is a vision.
positive · AI labelView post →alt text: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️• Until Parallel Mothers, Cruz's best performance in an Almodóvar film, a testy and headstrong presence in a fine ensemble; the nods to Magnani and Crawford are delicious touches, the yesteryear melodrama done up in modern ghost's clothing @el_zigzagger
positive · AI labelView post →best movies of 2020s pt.5 memoria Parallel mothers Petite maman The power of the dog #film #2020s #memoria #parallelmothers #petitemaman #thepowerofthedog
neutral · AI labelView post →I got distracted because a family member fat shamed me for getting Lloyd, but The Room Next Door was a very bad movie. Then I looked up the director and it's Pedro Almodovar who made Parallel Mothers, another awful movie. Bad acting, no chemistry, contrived. John Turturro tho >
negative · AI labelView post →Pedro Almodóvar’s 2021 film, Parallel Mothers, is streaming on Starz. www.starz.com/us/en/movies...
neutral · AI labelView post →#emiliaperez You have to give credit for a movie that goes this hard. I thought often of Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers and the similar themes of generational violence. The singing makes more sense when you think of the whole movie like a lament. The ladies don’t disappoint and Edgar Ramirez 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →FILMMAKER-A-MONTH: JULY- PEDRO ALMODÓVAR Born: September 25, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain First feature film: Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) Latest feature film: Parallel Mothers (2021) 22 feature films and some shorts.
neutral · AI labelView post →Marxism in Culture: The Economy of Mass Graves 17 November 2023, 5:30pm-7:30pm This paper will explore approaches to reframing Memory Studies from a materialist perspective, through the lens of the film, 'Parallel Mothers' (2021). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Switched at Birth trope is the stuff of soap operas, and that’s precisely why it would work wonderfully, as that sort of material has in the past, in one of his comedies, but here Almodóvar for some reason actually plays it straight. #parallelmothers #moviereview #spanish #drama #pedroalmodovar https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/parallel-mothers/
neutral · AI labelView post →Parallel Mothers bespeaks a creative fatigue on the part of writer/director Pedro Almodóvar. Not only is it too similar to his very uneven Julieta from just six years ago, but also rather hard to take seriously – and there is no reason that we should have to or even that he would want us to; the Switched at Birth trope is the stuff of soap operas, and that’s precisely why it would work wonderfully, as that sort of material has in the past, in one of his comedies, but here Almodóvar actually…
negative · AI labelView post →FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/parallel-mothers-spoiler-free-review "Parallel Mothers holds an unexpectedly shocking narrative about motherhood, featuring two remarkable performances from Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit. Despite some dull soap-opera moments and a few uninspiring technical attributes, Pedro Almodóvar offers a captivating, genuine, emotionally powerful story that puts the spotlight on imperfect mothers. Boasting clear direction and a no-nonsense…
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