All About My Mother DVD

Advantages: Powerful. poignant, moving, funny
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...but promises to tell him all when they get home. However, as Huma leaves the theatre and Esteban runs after her for an autograph he is tragically and shockingly run over and killed. Manuela is devastated and she reads in Esteban’s notebook how much he wanted to know his father. So Manuela sets off to Barcelona to find Esteban’s father and tell him about the son he never knew. On arrival in Barcelona Manuela chances upon an old friend Agrado (Antonia ...
...not acting as mothers. Nearly all of the characters in the film are women, except Esteban who dies early in the film and Agrado and Lola who act and behave like women. Without men to interfere Almodovar freely explores the interactions between this fascinating set of “females”. The result is a highly emotional and richly woven tapestry. The performances are masterful. Cecilia Roth is excellent as the strong willed Manuela who though devastated by ... Read review

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...review* Released in 1999, All About My Mother is the latest in a long line of excellent films by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. All About My Mother takes his talents to new heights, and richly deserved the many awards and accolades that it received after its release. The film centres around Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a single mother living in Madrid with her 17-year-old son Esteban (Eloy Arozin). Their relationship is strong, but Manuela has never ...
...she promises to tell Esteban all about his father when they go home. When the actress finally appears and is whisked away in a cab, Esteban chases after the taxi, and is run down and killed. The scene is filmed in such a shocking (yet not sensational) way that you are immediately hooked to the story. A distraught Manuela decides to return to Barcelona and tell Esteban’s father all about the son he never knew. Some of the shots in the film ... Read review

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...SOBRE MI MADRE aka All About My Mother (Spain/ F 1999) written & directed by Pedro Almodóvar composed by Albert Iglesias edited by José Salcedo cinematographed by Affonso Beato starring Cecilia Roth Marisa Paredes Candela Péna Antonia San Juan Penélope Cruz Rosa María Sardá Fernando Fernán Gómez Carlos Lozano Toni Cantó Eloy Azorín [98 Mins; Colour] Review The unquestioned Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Pedro ...
...and fascination of women as mothers, friends, sisters and impostors is his most assured piece yet. Cecilia Roth excels in the lead as the mysterious mother of aspiring writer Eloy Arorín, who dies in a car crash while running for a autograph from stage actress Marisa Paredes. Roth then moves back to Madrid to find her son’s father, a notorious transvestite whore (Toni Cantó), and meets old friends like fast-talking transvestite prostitute Antonia ... Read review

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...the Oscar who won, and all the other international prizes, nationals and. Good, me center in teh film. The synopsis of peli is this: Manuela is a nurse of the National Organization of Transplants whose son, to whom she was very united, dies in accident. Shortly before, the boy had concluded a book titled Everything on my mother in whom he expressed his disquiet by not to have known his father, to that believed dead. In fact, his father is alive ...
...Barcelona to do delivery to him of the book written by its son. Manuela is an Argentina woman who years ago married with a man who had an operation to be woman, the things change among them and she when pregnant remaining flees from Barcelona to Madrid, in theory so that her alive son in a different atmosphere... Years later (that are where peli begins) Manuela it takes to his son to the theater, to see "a called street car desire", and when leaving ... Read review