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Film show: Almodóvar's 'Parallel Mothers' evokes bloodlines and national trauma

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In his seventh collaboration with actress Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar focuses on two very different experiences of motherhood. Critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why "Parallel Mothers" draws some outstanding performances and how society seems to be catching up with Almodóvar's explorations of the diversity of the human condition.

We also take a look at a new French film from actor and director Yvan Attal, which centres on the delicate and topical question of consent.

For her eighth feature, Jane Campion wades into the Western, with the slow-burn movie "The Power of the Dog".

And we check out an eerily prescient and darkly psychedelic film from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, as "Petrov's Flu" echoes wider concerns amid a global pandemic.

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