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Power collaborators Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz dived into their latest project Parallel Mothers and celebrated the magic of diverse families Sunday during the movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles award-season event. “This is a rough story about motherhood, above all,” said Almodóvar of Parall…

Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers had Venice Film Festival attendees on their feet in the Sala Grande this evening, giving the opening night world premiere a nine-minute standing ovation. The movie, which traces the complicated relationship of two women (Penélope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit) who meet in a hospital…

"You need to know what kind of country you're living in!" Janis snaps at Ana — the much younger woman who shared her hospital ward when she was giving birth — in Parallel Mothers, the Venice Film Festival's opener. Has nobody told her there are 100,000 bodies buried in Spanish ditches? Doesn't Ana understand that…

Penelope Cruz's role in Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas) is "one of the most difficult characters" she has ever played, the actress told the press corps at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon. It’s a good thing then that she made the movie with long time collaborator Almodovar, who she called…

Facebook-owned Instagram has issued an apology for removing a poster for Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar's upcoming movie Parallel Mothers, which opens Venice this year, from its platform. The poster (see in full below) prominently features a lactating nipple. Instagram had taken down the image saying it broke its…

The New York Film Festival will close with Parallel Mothers, the Pedro Almodóvar-directed melodrama that is slated to open next month’s Venice Film Festival. Closing Night in New York will be October 8. After an online and virtual edition in 2020 due to Covid-19, the fest is returning to its Lincoln Center base with…

The 78th Venice Film Festival has its opening film – Pedro Almodovar’s Madres Paralelas, starring Penelope Cruz. Film will play in Competition and will open the fest on September 1. It also stars Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano and Rossy De Palma. The story follows two women, Janis…

Spanish actress and activist Pilar Bardem—mother of actors Monica, Carlos and Javier Bardem — died Saturday at the Ruber Hospital in Madrid because of complications from lung disease not related to Covid-19. She was 82. The Goya Award-winning actress (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) appeared in a variety of film…

The 74th Cannes Film Festival kicked off in earnest Tuesday evening as big names came out to support the event that's just getting back to business after last year's cancellation and this year's delays. Assembled together, 2019 Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Bong Joon-ho, Cannes veteran Pedro Almodóvar, jury president Spi…

éSony Pictures Classics has taken all rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand to Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas), repping the 13th collaboration between the distributor and the filmmaker’s production company El Deseo. Production began last month on the film in Madrid. The movie also…

Ten days before Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film arrives in theaters, Sony Pictures Classics has a released a new trailer for The Human Voice. Watch it above. Clocking in at an attention-span-friendly 30 minutes and starring Tilda Swinton, the pic screened at last year’s Venice, New York and London fests…

Top Spanish Auteur Pedro Almodovar is preparing to head into production on his next movie Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas), which will star Penelope Cruz alongside the newly-announced Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (The Machinist), Israel Elejalde (Love Above All Things) and Milena Smit. The movie is set to roll cameras by…