First trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ with Penélope Cruz
Sony Pictures Classics will release the film on December 24, 2021
Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for the Venice and Toronto festival-bound Parallel Mothers from Academy Award winner Pedro Almodóvar and starring Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz.
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.
Parallel Mothers stars Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano and Rossy De Palma. It is written and directed by Academy Award winner Pedro Almodóvar and will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.
Here is the first trailer.
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