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I found Parallel Mothers to be a very divisive movie for me. Madres Paralelas felt like it couldn’t decide what it wanted to be; a story of war and it’s generational effects on a community, or a story about motherly grief, or a story about hospital mistakes, or a love story. It tried to cram it all in and keep going. The synopsis they give you under the title on Amazon is fairly brief and all of that happens in about the first twenty minutes. So then you have to wonder what the rest of the hour and a half is about. I thought I was signing up for a movie about two women who are giving birth at the same time and teaching each other in their room. But this is mostly a story about being switched at birth that starts and ends with the story of generational effects of war. It is nominated twice for Best Original Score and Penelope Cruz for Best Lead Actress. I thought Cruz was really good here and her nomination was well deserved, but winning wasn’t an option. I don’t know about the score though. On its own, I think it is a good score, but when you hear it in the context of the scenes of the movie it makes no sense. It feels like it belongs to a totally different genre of a movie. Milena Smit plays a really good character but they make her very unlikeable at the end after a very late twist and then make her very briefly likable again. Israelel Ejalde is pretty good, but he only gets time in three sections, the start, the middle, and the end. Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and Rossy de Palma play such wildly different characters really well and I felt needed some more time to flesh them out some more. I think this is a good movie to watch because it does have a good story even if it has too many stories. But because of that I can only give it a 7/10. It’s like maybe the Director had a couple messages to get across but didn’t want to make two movies. It’s just too much in one narrative that’s already loaded with the main one. Give it watch and decide for yourself though. -Tyler.
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