Parallel Mothers,” Reviewed: A Breathless Romance Sparked by a Fight for Historical Truth

Richard Brody reviews “Parallel Mothers,” the new film by Pedro Almodóvar, in which characters played by Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit confront their family histories and Spain’s painful past, dating back to the civil war of the nineteen-thirties.

Family matters: In Parallel Mothers, the truth always surfaces

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