School of Social and Political Science

Description

The Kinship: More or Less Hub is screening Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers (2021) at 12.30 on Tuesday, 12th March in the Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB. This event is open to all University of Edinburgh staff and students. The film contains some upsetting moments so please check the themes are okay for you to engage with at the moment (please see blurb below).

'On the face of it, this has all the hallmarks of a vintage Almodóvar film: a focus on women, fluid sexualities, deep secrets, clashing colours and to-die-for interiors. But this is also Almodóvar’s most overtly political film to date, dealing head-on with the mass graves and unidentified victims of the Spanish civil war... The history is folded in, to a typically Almodóvarian concoction, with elements of thriller, comedy and melodrama. Cruz plays Janis, a photographer who becomes pregnant by one of her subjects, a forensic archeologist who excavates mass graves (and has a wife). In the maternity hospital she meets Ana (Milena Smit), a teenage mother who is also planning to raise her child alone. Neither will have an easy time of it. Their lives, and those of their daughters, become increasingly – some might say improbably – intertwined through a combination of tragedy, solidarity, desire and administrative error'

-https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/21/best-films-of-2022-in-the-uk-no-3-parallel-mothers