(ANSA) - VENICE, JUL 19 - "Madres paralelas", by PedroAlmodóvar, with Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, is the opening film of the 78 / A Mostradel Cinema in Venice, which will 'September 1st. The Biennale announces it. The film will be screened on Wednesday 1 September 2021 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema. "Hiding as a director in Venice in 1983 ... - declares Almodóvar-" ... in the Mezzogiorno Mezzanotte section, Thirty-eight years later I am called to inaugurate the exhibition. I cannot express the joy, the honor and how much this represents for me without falling into complacency. I am very grateful to the festival for this recognition and I hope to live up to it "says Almodovar again.
"I am grateful to Pedro Almodóvar - replied Alberto Barbera - for having offered us the privilege of opening the Film Festival with his new film, an intense and sensitive portrait of two women who measure themselves against the themes of motherhood with unpredictable implications, of female solidarity, of a sexuality lived in full freedom and without hypocrisy, against the background of a reflection on the inescapable need for truth, to be pursued without hesitation. A very welcome return to Venice in Competition for our Golden Lion for career in 2019, many years after the success of Donnesull verge of a nervous breakdown, which marked his definitive affirmation in the international arena ".
Madres paralelas will be screened on Wednesday 1 September 2021 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), on the opening night of the 78th International Art Exhibition.
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