As Pedro Almodovar’s new film Parallel Mothers is released, Alex Denney delves into the maternal figures in the Spanish director’s work
. For his 23rd film, the famously mother-loving Spanish auteur explores the bond struck up by two expectant mums who meet on the labour ward, teenager Ana and fashion photographer Janis . When one of them learns a terrible secret, the scene is set for a showdown between two generations of single mums – or at least, it would be if we were in Hollywood here.
Almodóvar has given us some of the great screen mums over the years, from his early days as a queer punk provocateur to his later, more subtly transgressive works. In his singular vision, mothers are both nurturing figures as well as a source of erotic fixation, victims of Franco-era fascist ideology and avenging angels in the national psychodrama that played out after the dictator’s demise.
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