Meanwhile, Janis begins a relationship with the married Arturo and falls pregnant, freeing him of all responsibility once she decides to go ahead and have the child, whom she names Cecilia, after her grandmother. Janis and her surviving relatives hope to have the body exhumed so they can give him a proper burial alongside his wife.
According to her family, her great-grandfather was dumped there after being killed by fascists during the Spanish Civil War. After a photo shoot with forensic anthropologist Arturo (Israel Elejalde), Janis enlists his help in securing permits and funding from a historical society to excavate a mass grave in her childhood village. The actress responds with her most outstanding work since Volver.Ĭruz plays Janis, a successful commercial photographer named for Janis Joplin by her hippie mother, who died young and left her to be raised by her grandmother. Above all, it gives the marvelous Cruz one of the best roles of her career - a woman whose fulfillment is shattered by a startling truth that steers her toward deception, until she can no longer contain it. While Parallel Mothers doesn’t match the intricately interwoven layers of Almodóvar’s top-tier work - All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Pain and Glory - and some of its key plot disclosures can be seen coming, that doesn’t make the melodrama any less gripping or emotionally satisfying. Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition)Ĭast: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano
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