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A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 96%, Metacritic 88/100. Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 88% of the 6,803 2020s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic88/100
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
1,062 audience votes
Key crew
- Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay
- Alberto IglesiasOriginal Music Composer
- Pedro AlmodóvarDirector
Cast
- Penélope CruzJanis
- Milena SmitAna
- Israel ElejaldeArturo
- Aitana Sánchez-GijónTeresa
- Rossy de PalmaElena
- Julieta SerranoBrígida
- Arantxa ArangurenCast
- Adelfa CalvoCast
- José Javier DomínguezCast
- Trinidad IglesiasCast
- Inma OchoaCast
- Ana PeleteiroCast
Stills
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Shares: Pedro Almodóvar · Julieta Serrano · Rossy de Palma
Themes
motherphotographerpregnancyspanish civil war (1936-39)memorysingle mothermotherhooddna testingswitched at birthpost spanish civil warlesbian
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