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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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