During Hollywood's golden age, studios would regularly produce a steady supply of what would later be called "women's pictures." The lushly produced melodramas were vehicles for Bette Davis, Joan ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pedro Almodóvar has a theory that his films with male protagonists, like his autobiographical 2019 film “Pain and Glory,” are darker and more somber. “I look inside myself when I talk ...

Parallel Mothers, the latest from veteran Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, follows the intertwined stories of two women in Madrid. Both are single mothers and both deliver their babies on the same ...

Communicating via his brother and producer Agustín Almodóvar’s Twitter, the filmmaker wrote: “Many thanks to all of you who have supported the ‘Parallel Mothers’ poster, to those of you who have ...

From the opening image of “Parallel Mothers,” Almodóvar calls attention to the artifice of filmmaking. On the set of a photo shoot, the props and lights and craft service and crew are all in view as ...

“You need to know what kind of country you’re living in!” Janis snaps at Ana — the much younger woman who shared her hospital ward when she was giving birth — in Parallel Mothers, the Venice Film ...

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