After a project in the language of Shakespeare with Tilda Swinton, Perdro Almodovar returns to that of Cervantes and finds for the occasion a familiar cast.
The ten weeks of filming just completed, the Spanish filmmaker has just unveiled the first images and a short making-of of
Madres Paralelas
, his next feature film with Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit and Israel Elejalde.
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As part of a theme dear to the 71-year-old director, the film will have as heroines two mothers who gave birth on the same day. “
I'm talking about the importance of ancestors and descendants. The inevitable presence of memory. There are many mothers in my filmography, those who are part of this story are very different,
”said Pedro Almodovar in a press release, notably taken up by IndieWire. According to him, this new feature film "
will be an intense drama
". No release date has yet been brought forward, but
Madres Paralelas is
expected to
hit
our screens in 2022.
The director's latest film,
Pain and Glory
, won the Best Actor Award for Antonio Banderas at Cannes. In the meantime, the director has offered the services of Tilda Swinton to direct
La Voix Humaine
, a short film inspired by the eponymous play by Jean Cocteau. Screened at several festivals, this critically acclaimed free adaptation was released in Spain on October 20, 2020.