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Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) ...
Pedro Almodovar's film examines the life of Manuela, who leaves Madrid for Barcelona shortly after she witnesses her son's accidental death. Watch trailers & learn more.
Esteban is so captivated by the evening's Blanche Dubois, the diva Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), that he waits for her in the street in hopes of an autograph. In a devastating sequence, filmed by Mr. Almodóvar with the sweeping visual assurance that binds this film together so firmly, Manuela's beloved son is mowed down in the street.
Full Review | Apr 29, 2020. For all the film's purple prose and soap opera dramatics, Almodóvar never loses sight of his characters' simple humanity. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22 ...
One of the delightful pleasures of All About My Mother is the way these chaotic characters fall so easily into each other’s upended lives, so that those in need of care become indistinguishable from the caregivers. Rosa tries to find Manuela a job, only to have Manuela become her unofficial doula.
Jan 28, 2020 · All About My Mother was released in Spain in April 1999, and the following month became Almodóvar’s first movie to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the best director prize (the first of many international awards for the movie, including a foreign-language-film Oscar). Almodóvar’s mother died in September of the same year.
Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken woman learns her son's final wish was to know his father - the man she ...
