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All About My Mother , 1999
Spanish, Catalan, English
Spain, France
Profile of All About My Mother
The mood of All About My Mother is uplifting, bittersweet, and emotional. The plot centers around transvestism, a prostitute, and redemption. It is a drama and foreign movie. Stylistically, All About My Mother is postmodernist, stars a strong female character, and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. All About My Mother is set in Barcelona. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being a modern classic, controversial, and an Oscar winner. Note that All About My Mother includes drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of All About My Mother
Cecilia Roth stars in this celebrated film from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Distraught over the death of her teenage son, Manuela drives to Barcelona to find the boy's father, an itinerant transsexual named Lola (Toni Canto). While combing the city's less reputable districts, she also meets up with Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a sassy transvestite prostitute, and Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a pregnant nun on her way to El Salvador. She also becomes the manager for Huma (Marisa Paredes), the actress her son idolized, and helps her through a run of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Together these great ladies bond through various heartrending crises, enduring the pain and celebrating the beauty of being women (or almost women). Considered to be one of Almodóvar's most fully realized works, this charming and unique film blends his earlier gender-bending irreverence with the mature grace and compassion of his later work, striking a perfect note of humor and pathos.
Details
| Language: | Spanish, Catalan, English |
| Country: | Spain, France |
| Release date: | 16 April 1999 |
| Runtime: | 101 min |
| Awards: | Cannes,Academy Awards |
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Entertainment Weekly
Almodóvar's masterwork, is a spectacular synthesis of everything that has always interested him -- proud women, lovely boys, beautiful drag queens, grand movie stars, gorgeous frocks, wild wallpaper .
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The New York Times
It weaves life and art into a rich tapestry of love, loss and compassion.
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- by: Janet Maslin
Users Reviews
This movie was full of interesting characters and storyline. Overall did not make so much sense though...
- 16.October.2008
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- by: sarahjane
- sarahjane rated this movie5/10So-so
Like most of Almodovar's films, this one is very colorful and emotional, and deals with gender issues and relationships of all sorts. if you like Almodovar's work you are sure to love this one too, but if you don't like him then this movie will not...
- 21.August.2008
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- by: mathilda
- mathilda rated this movie7/10Good
