Jan 29
2 min read
Film Review — Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodovar confronts Spain’s Falangist history via compelling maternal metaphors.
I came away from Pedro Almodovar’s new film Parallel Mothers unsure whether the final act was too much of a tonal lurch away from the rest of the film. It all went a bit Schindler’s List, when up to that point we’d been in a gripping maternal drama. Then it hit me. The…
