Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOscar voters: If you still have films to watch before casting your Oscar ballot March 17-22, make sure one of them is writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers.” The film boasts two nominations: Lead actress Penélope Cruz and the music score of Alberto Iglesias, both incredibly good.
Though some subtitled films may seem like homework, this one is a treat from start to finish.The work of the two nominees is closely connected.
Iglesias tells Variety that his assignment was to get inside the head of Cruz’s character, Janis. “The acting of Penélope is extraordinary.
My idea was that the music is the narrator of her soul.“I used different forms and shapes to give this idea that the music was inside Janis, in her body, in her head.” Cruz responds, “When I listened to what he did, it was kind of magical.
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