Power collaborators Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz dived into their latest project Parallel Mothers and celebrated the magic of diverse families Sunday during the movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles award-season event.“This is a rough story about motherhood, above all,” said Almodóvar of Parallel Mothers, which premiered earlier this year at the Venice Film Festival and is being released in the U.S.
by Sony Pictures Classics. “Penélope’s character is hiding something that gave her a sense of guilt, which is very important.
It’s something that is very, very hard to perform. She is saying something that is inside her is thinking about something different.”He added, “This is not melodramatic.
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