PARALLEL MOTHERS
SYNOPSIS
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. 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 by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
WITH
Penélope Cruz, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano
Run Time
2 hours, 2 minutes
Released
December 24, 2021
Distributed by
Sony Pictures Classics
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Descriptive Audio
Open Captions (subtitled)
Country
Spain
SUBTITLES
Spanish with English Subtitles
RATED R
for some sexuality
SHOWINGS
JAN 28 | FRI
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
JAN 29 | SAT
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
JAN 30 | SUN
11:45 A.M., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
JAN 31 | MON
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 1 | TUE
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 2 | WED
CANCELLED
FEB 3 | THU
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 4 | FRI
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 5 | SAT
11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 6 | SUN
11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 7 | MON
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 8 | TUE
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 9 | WED
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
FEB 10 | THU
4:45, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.
Reviews
“Parallel Mothers is a movie of infinite tenderness, that rare ode to motherhood that acknowledges mothers as women first and mothers second.”
“It’s an unabashedly serious movie, one so straightforwardly sculpted and emotionally down-to-earth that there’s no distance between the audience and what’s happening onscreen.”
“Feels almost like stepping back into a long conversation with an old friend; a dialogue of decades, told two hours at a time.”