All About My Mother (1999)

Original title

Todo sobre mi madre

Directed by

Pedro Almodóvar

Genre

comedy drama, transgender film

Country

France, Spain

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 2,079 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After her teenage son dies in a car accident, a woman travels to Barcelona to find his father, a trans woman she had not seen for years. She becomes part of a community of women, including a pregnant nun and a famous actress, as they each deal with loss, identity, and illness.

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What happens

All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa Maria Sardà, and Fernando Fernán Gómez. The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995), which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident. All About My Mother deals with issues such as AIDS, gender identity, homosexuality, faith, and existentialism. The film was a commercial and critical success both in Spain, where it received 14 Goya Award nominations, winning seven - including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress for Roth; and internationally, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in addition to the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and two BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Direction, as well as Best Director at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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