A new trailer has arrived for filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Parallel Mothers which will play and have its world premiere at this year’s Venice Film festival. The festival kicks off on 1st September and this one will screen on the opening night. Amongst the cast of the new work is the likes of Penelope Cruz, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijon, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma.
The story is as follows.
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.
Watch the trailer below. Release info to follow but this one is already scheduled for a stateside bow on 24th December.
