Parallel Mothers — IQ Score 163/200
Parallel Mothers has an IQ Score of 163/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
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The TVI Take
Almodóvar's 2021 Penélope Cruz vehicle whose dual structural premise — two women giving birth in adjacent hospital beds while a parallel historical investigation unearths Civil War-era mass graves — is the catalog's most-thematically-committed historical engagement. The film treats Francoist atrocities as actual subject rather than as background.
Cruz received Cannes Best Actress and an Oscar nomination.
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