In a tender moment in Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers, the opener of this year's Venice Film Festival, the older of the eponymous mothers teaches the other how to peel potatoes while wearing a t-shirt that says "We Should All Be Feminists." Since Janis (Penélope Cruz) is at the cusp of middle age, whereas Ana (Milena Smit) has only just turned 18, there's a suggestion of baton-passing in this Jeanne Dielman reference. One wonders, then, what Chantal Akerman might have thought of the scene i...
Venice Film Festival 2021 Critic's Notebook: Parallel Mothers, Il Buco and The Cathedral
Filmmaker Magazine - 5 Sep 2021 20:41
In a tender moment in Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers, the opener of this year's Venice Film Festival, the older of the eponymous mothers teaches the other how to peel potatoes while wearing a t-shirt that says "We Should All Be Feminists." Since Janis (Penélope Cruz) is at the cusp of middle age, whereas Ana (Milena Smit) has only just turned 18, there's a suggestion of baton-passing in this Jeanne Dielman reference. One wonders, then, what Chantal Akerman might have thought of the scene i...
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