120 mins |
Rated
14A
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Rossy de Palma, Penélope Cruz , Julieta Serrano, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Daniela Santiago, Israel Elejalde
The University of Lethbridge presents:
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodovar/ Spain / 2021)
Dr. Melanie Collado (Modern Languages & Linguistics)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Movie Mill, 7:30pm
$5 students/youth | $8 adults
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.
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The University of Lethbridge presents:
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodovar/ Spain / 2021)
Dr. Melanie Collado (Modern Languages & Linguistics)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Movie Mill, 7:30pm
$5 students/youth | $8 adults
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.