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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.
Mar 31, 2000 · All About My Mother: Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. With Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan. A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
Dec 22, 1999 · "All About My Mother" is one of the best films of the Spanish director, whose films present a Tennessee Williams sensibility in the visual style of a 1950s Universal-International tearjerker. Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone never seem very far offscreen.
Almodovar weaves together a magnificent tapestry of femininity with an affectionate wink to classics of theater and cinema in this poignant story of love, loss and compassion. New friends help a...
- Drama, Comedy
Mar 6, 2020 · Nevertheless, “All About My Mother” is heart-rending story about a mother, Manuela (played beautifully by Cecilia Roth), who is figuring out how to go on with her life once her teenage son, Esteban—the light and center of her life—is hit by a car and killed.
A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun. Argentine Manuela Echevarria, an organ transplant coordinator at a Madrid hospital, ran off from her husband in Barcelona eighteen years ago upon learning that she was pregnant.
All About My Mother. This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own.
Nov 19, 1999 · The story of a mother who, after the tragic death of her son, decides to return to Barcelona in search of his father. In her research she will meet several people and find that things have changed somewhat from how she remembered them.
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.
Jul 26, 2023 · All About My Mother is largely a film about coping with, and moving on through, grief. But even more than that, Almodóvar uses every inch of this grand, colorful canvas to remind us how big the...
