Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...great films (All About My Mother and Talk to Her) and the crafty, corrosive Bad Education, Almodóvar carried a massive burden of expectations. To some, Volver was a marking of time between inspirations. To these eyes, it was a fully satisfying comedy-melodrama about the burden of motherhood, the power of sisterhood. Volver begins with a tracking shot through the cemetery in a Spanish village, as dozens of widows polish the tombstones of their late husbands. Among the mourners is Raimunda (Penélope Cruz, in a performance of great strength and ferocity), scrubbing down the grave...
...myself at a festival, where there is so much to see and write about. I saw the movie again at the public screening. The second time, not expecting a masterpiece, I found a film that pleased, impressed and touched me - a fully satisfying comedy-melodrama about the burden of motherhood, the power of sisterhood...
...About My Mother. In both movies, an important male character dies violently in the first 20 mins.; the story then traces the lead female character's reliance on other women to get through difficult times, even as she helps them. There are differences, of course. The earlier film defined motherhood as nurturing life; the new one adds to that the mission of angelic vengeance, in which women determine that the sexual sins of the father are punishable by death...
...life's little ironies that her decision to take time off for motherhood led to her most successful work. As she scrambles to wrap up the season, Rhimes has already started developing the news-correspondents show. And she's still under contract with Disney to deliver two more movies. Rhimes is adamant that she will remain closely involved with Grey's. "This is my other baby. I'm not leaving it," she says. And why would she? Babies have been great for her career...
...they rat out neighbors who don't sew their own Halloween costumes. Their children grow up thinking a woman's place is in the kitchen, or on the couch watching reruns of Ellen. They deny their own oppression, and their depression too. Blinded by their devotion to full-time motherhood, they ignore the scientific research on how day-care children have more verbal skills and less asthma...