What to Watch: A queer film fest returns, Almodóvar, and two singers you need to know
Whatever your entertainment needs, we got your back (and hopefully your mind) with Queerty’s weekly “Culture Club” column with some of the highlights of new releases, streaming shows, classics worth revisiting, and what to drink while you watch.Pedro Pedro Almodóvarar-nominated drama arrives on Blu-Ray and DVD this week.
Once again, we can’t recommend it enough. To recap: Parallel Mothers casts Penélope Cruz as Janice, a high-fashion photographer pregnant as the result of an affair with a married man (Israel Elejalde).
Janice decides to keep the baby, and befriends Ana (Milena Smit), an also-pregnant younger woman. When Ana and Jancie give birth on the same day, they form an unexpected bond that will haunt them for years to come.Cruz gives one of her best-ever performances here, as does Smit in a more understated role.
As with much of Mr. Almodóvar’s work, Parallel Mothers uses relationship drama as a prism with which to examine themes of sexual fluidity and same-sex attraction.
