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Pedro Almodovar on Creating ‘Rapid and Tense’ Storytelling Through Editing in ‘Parallel Mothers’

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWomen have always been in the center of Pedro Almodovar’s films, driving his narrative. For the past few years, a woman has also been in the editing chair.

For years, José Salcedo Palomeque was his go-to editor, until Palomeque died in 2017. Since then, Teresa Font has been working by the filmmaker’s side, on set and cutting dailies — she cut his latest film, “Parallel Mothers,” where emotion was imperative to the storytelling.Almodovar says, the two didn’t preestablish what rhythm the editing would take. “The film itself calls for how it wants to breathe.

The important thing is that we agree on how we evaluate the shot,” he says. Additionally, when it came to coverage, Almodovar, who often could attempt 30 takes, confesses he used fewer takes than ever for this. “It was not necessary to repeat takes because one or two captured what I wanted.” “Parallel Mothers” stars Almodovar’s muse, Penelope Cruz, and follows two single women who meet in a hospital room where they are both going to give birth.

One is middle-aged and doesn’t regret it, while the other is adolescent and scared. The two women form a strong bond with one another as they both confront motherhood.When it came to the film’s rhythm, Almodovar says, “The pacing of the film is a very abstract and personal thing, it is driven by whatever a director’s ideas are about narration and by the genre of the film.

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