Limitless power drives people to do unimaginable things, rewrite the past, bury the present and control the future. Yet, more often than not, the tide changes, and all that was hidden beneath somehow comes up to the surface.
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers is, on the surface, about the complicated relationship between two mothers who give birth on the same day in the same hospital. But, Almodovar uses this rather melodramatic story to explore uncomfortable truths from his country's past, specifically the repression under the close-to-four decades of dictatorial rule under Francisco Franco from the 1930s onwards, and especially during the Spanish Civil War.
The film was screened under the World Cinema category at the ongoing 26th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala.
