All About My Mother DVD > Reviews

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 ... Read review

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...my original 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 ... Read review

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TODO 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 ... 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 ... Read review