Tuesday 18 Μαρτίου at 19:15

The film, with motherhood as its main theme, tells the story of two women who meet in a maternity hospital. At the same time, however, the Almodovarian melodrama becomes a vehicle for addressing the politics of memory in Spain. The older of the two women, in defiance of everyone, searches a mass grave full of the bodies of executed Civil War republicans, including her grandfather. Almodovar has said that in the years of transition he had chosen to ignore this dark side of Spain's history. When dictator Franco died in 1975, the horrors of his regime were scattered across the country, in countless unmarked graves filled with citizens who opposed his rule. Many years and acclaimed films later, Almodovar is confronted with the conservative politics of reconciliation through oblivion.