Ziad Shihab

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Parallel Mothers – first-look review

It must be tiring reading critics’ notices of new Pedro Almodóvar films and seeing the same old tired line about how it’s his best film in years, or maybe one of his best ever. And yet here we are again with Parallel Mothers which is – drum roll please – up there in the highest echelons of his world-beating canon. This sinuous and sensual melodrama of identity, maternity and sexuality plays like a remix of 2006’s Volver cross-processed through 1999’s All About My Mother and even 2002’s T...

Interview: Alfonso Zarauza • Director of Ons - “The island has this immense power that’s fuelled by the characters in the film” - Seville 2020

19/11/2020 - We talked to Galician director Alfonso Zarauza following the presentation of Ons, his latest movie, in the Extraordinary Histories section of the Seville Film Festival Alfonso Zarauza (Santiago de Compostela, 1973) has been working in the Galician audiovisual sector for more than 25 years. Six years after his previous outing, Aces [+see also: film reviewtrailerinterview: Alfonso Zarauzafilm profile], he’s back with Ons [+see also: film reviewtrailerinterview: Alfonso Zarauza...