All About My Mother

Name: All About My Mother
Released: 1999-4-16
Cast: Marisa Peredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Cecilia Roth, Rosa Maria Sardà

All About My Mother

R
1h 41m
1999

98%

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Internationally acclaimed writer/director Pedro Almodóvar (2003 Oscar® winner, Best Screenplay, Talk to Her; Bad Education, The Flower of my Secret) delivers his finest film yet, a poignant masterpiece of unconditional love, survival and redemption. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken woman learns her son's final wish was to know his father - the man she abandoned when she was pregnant 18 years earlier.

Director:

Pedro Almodóvar

Producer:

Claude Berri

Writer:

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast:

Marisa Peredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Cecilia Roth, Rosa Maria Sardà, Antonia San Juan, iTunes Feature Presentation [Presentation.0]

FEATURES

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Making of All About My Mother

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An Intimate Conversation with Pedro Almodóvar

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Deconstructing Almodóvar

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

98%

Critics Consensus: Almodovar weaves together a magnificent tapestry of femininity with an affectionate wink to classics of theater and cinema in this poignant story of love, loss and compassion.

Reviews

Out Magazine

Bryan Petroff

Not only is this the Spanish director's most sophisticated film to date, it's a watershed moment in his career and one of the best movies of the year.

Almodóvar has never been shy about displays of feeling, but rarely has he employed his operatic shifts of emotion with such confidence and control.

Arguably the best ever film by visionary Pedro Almodóvar, this heartfelt comedy drama is a celebration of womanhood and maternity which also explores - with tender sensitivity - the trials and tribulations of LGBTQ+ life.

On paper, it features a plot which sounds like the soapiest of Sirk mixed with the most lurid of telenovela and yet, as a testament to the writer/director's mastery, it's a vividly joyful odyssey of fluctuating emotional tones.

...this melodramatic narrative, in the end, is a satisfying story about femininity and companionship. Arguably one of Almodóvar's masterpieces...

April 29, 2020

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