“Parallel Mothers” by Pedro Almodóvar

This recent film by the director from La Mancha oscillates between soap opera melodrama and ridicule of historical memory, through a plot where Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smith), two new mothers, discover that their daughters were switched at birth. The fact that Janis's great-grandfather disappeared during the Spanish Civil War gives the director the opportunity to seize a theme that, in the mannerism of his own style, loses its load of seriousness to fall into the banal and pamphleteer. .

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