The 78th Venice Film Festival, which runs from September 1 to 11, will begin with Spanish master Pedro Almodovar’s “Madres Parallels” or “Parallel Mothers”. It will star two stars – Penelope Cruz, who may well be described as a muse of autism, and Tom Graeter. The film will be part of the main competition and will also feature actors such as Milena Smit, Israel Alejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Juliette Serrano and Rossi De Palma. this will be the second time in between coronavirus Pandemic that Venice will have its personal version.
The plot of Parallel Mothers centers on Janice and Anna, who meet in a hospital room where they are about to give birth. Both are unmarried and accidentally became pregnant. While middle-aged Janice is excited about the soon-to-be baby, teenage Anna is terrified, and regrets that she ever found herself in this situation. In fact, he is hurt by what happened to him.
Janice does her best to comfort Anna, and as they walk through the corridors of the hospital at night, they talk and form a close bond that will complicate their lives. Both women will change.
For Almodovar, this film and its selection are of great importance. “I was born in 1983 in Venice as a film director,” he said. “In the Mezzogiorno Mezzanot section. Thirty-eight years later, I’ve been called to open the festival. I can’t explain the joy and the honor, and how much it means to me without falling into complacency.”
Almodovar is famous for the way it creates and celebrates its female characters. I still remember a graphically moving opening scene at the 2006 Cannes premiere, Wolver, in which tens of widows are cleaning their husbands’ graves in a wind-swept day with fallen leaves scattered around. There is another scene where Raymunda, essayed by Cruz, throws a dead body inside his giant refrigerator – which was shamelessly copied in a Tamil film!
The director rose to international fame with her 1988 ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language. After that success followed him like a shadow, and ‘Tie me up! Movies like Tie Me Down. (1990), “High Heels” (1991), and “Live Flesh” (1997) took him to the heights of stars. Later, his ‘All About My Mother’ (1999) and ‘Talk to Her’ (2002) earned him an Academy. Prize. His romantic work, ‘Broken Embraces’ (2009) and the psychological thriller ‘The Skin I Live In’ (2011) were critically acclaimed. 2019’s ‘Julietta’ and 2019’s ‘Pain and Glory’ competed at Cannes for the Palm. Distant
Actress Adriana Ugarte, who stars in ‘Julieta’ (based on Alice Monroe’s short stories), dreamed of starring in an Almodovar work in Spain. He got a chance in ‘Julieta’. “When it comes to Mr. Almodovar and his female characters”, Ugart once said, “it is a mystery, but he can tell how we feel and how we are.”
For over four decades, the director has been at the helm of films, drawing inspiration from various directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pina Bosch to name just two. But Almodovar’s fascination with female characters and her ability to write them with passion and tenderness has remained constant with her, and the actresses have loved her to bits. There was a chance in Cannes when Cruz shouted “Pedro I love you” and blew him a kiss. He was sitting in the auditorium, and she was on the stage.
Cruz quipped, “I was lucky to meet her mother when she was alive, and it helped me understand what she is like and her attraction to women and how well she knows women.” Is.” “His mother and his sisters and neighbors raised him along with a lot of women. Much of what you see in “Volver” is his 2006 film about a family of women and matriarchs reappearing as a ghost — and he was always watching and watching.
Her latest outing ‘Parallel Moms’ seems to be yet another attempt to celebrate the ladies.
(The writer, film critic Gautman Bhaskaran has covered the Venice Film Festival for 20 years)
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