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
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Catalan (Original Language); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 2001-01-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Movie Review: Impressive
Summary: 4 Stars
Almodovar is truly in a class by himself and his originality is a welcome breath of fresh air in a time when way too many popular films are regurgitations of familiar and cliched stories. This films story, of one woman's tragedy and her subsequent journey to find somebody from her distant past (sorry if this is vague, you really shouldn't know anything about this before watching), is expertly told through subtlety and surprise. If you're looking for something different but engaging, check this one out.
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 VHS Video
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