Sony Pictures Classics has released the official trailer for filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s latest effort “Parallel Mothers” which will shortly be having its debut as opening night film at the Venice Film Festival.
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant.
The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors.
The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
Penelope Cruz, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijon, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma star in the film which opens in cinemas on Christmas Eve.