“Esta es una película que habla de maternidades distintas ”, Almodóvar told an interviewer. Most of Madres paralelas plays out as an engaño-induced maternal melodrama. Engaño resurfaces in Madres paralelas, in which the two characters most committed to revealing the truth about Spain’s past prove to be less than truthful in their own personal lives. ![]() In addition to its dramatic potential, Almodóvar has shown how deceit can be a force for good as well as ill: for example, Raimunda concealing Paco’s death in Volver in order to protect her daughter. The spark that ignited the production came when Almodóvar found a way to intertwine two narratives about truth and secrecy, one at a personal level and the other centred on Spain’s historical memory.Īlmodóvar devotees are long familiar with the importance of deception – engaño – in his story-telling. Madres paralelas, which opened in the UK in late January 2022, reveals that Almodóvar and the dictator have unfinished business. ![]() Its critique of the compromises of the Transition, such as the pacto del olvido, seemed to settle Almodóvar’s score with el franquismo. The 2018 documentary El silencio de otros, which he co-produced, seemed to fulfil that ambition, with its intimate stories of those abused or bereaved by Franco’s regime and their quest for restorative justice in the modern era. ![]() Almodóvar had in fact long pondered making a film that would address Spain’s ‘historical memory’ (ie the tragic legacy of the Franco era, involving torture, murder and disappearances on a massive scale).
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