All About My Mother
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Actor: Carmen Balagu? (II), Eloy Azor?n, Pen?lope Cruz, Toni Cant?, Yael Barnat?nPrimary Contributor: Marisa Paredes
Primary Contributor: Cecilia Roth
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of All About My Mother
Movie Review: A harsh realistic film in Spanish
Summary: 4 Stars
Only in modern times can we have a Greek tragedy like effect with most of the people still alive? HIV and a transvestite father combine with a drug abusing daughter of an actress to produce an effect of loss
even when the baby doesn't have the disease.
I thought the lead actress was very good in this and it appears that a supporting role was enough to get Penelope Cruz to Hollywood?
I like it even with the harsh life it showed.
Summary of All About My Mother
After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Pen?lope Cruz), a young nun who turns out to be pregnant. Meanwhile, Manuela becomes a personal assistant for Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), an actress currently playing Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. All About My Mother traces the delicate web of friendship and loss that binds these women together. The movie is dedicated to the actresses of the world, so it's not surprising that all the performances are superb. Roth in particular anchors All About My Mother with compassion and generosity. But fans of writer-director Pedro Almod?var needn't fret--as always, Almod?var's work undermines conventional notions of sexual identity and embraces all human possibilities with bright colors and melodramatic plotting. However, All About My Mother approaches its twists and turns with a broader emotional scope than most of Almod?var's work; even the more extravagant aspects of the story are presented quietly, to allow the sadness of life to be as present as the irrepressible vitality of the characters. Almod?var embraces pettiness, jealousy, and grief as much as kindness, courage, and outrageousness, and the movie is the richer for it. --Bret FetzerArt House & International DVD Video
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