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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.
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. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost father in Barcelona ...
Mar 6, 2020 · An Ode to Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother on Its 20th Anniversary. Rebecca Bodenheimer March 06, 2020. Tweet. This piece was published on June 17, 2019 and is being republished for Women Writers Week. Twenty years ago, Pedro Almodóvar ’s most acclaimed film, the Oscar-winning “ All About My Mother ,” was released.
Jul 6, 2019 · And in his most recent film, All About My Mother, Almodovar further indulges his fascination in their transparent despair, their resilience, and their capacity to heal. Of all his works, All About My Mother is a film consumed with theater, with artifice, with adopted identity, worn like a costume. The plot is gnarled with coincidence ...
All About My Mother won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999 and is widely regarded as one of Almodóvar’s masterpieces. The film’s themes of motherhood, identity, and acceptance resonated with audiences globally, and its success paved the way for more Spanish cinema to be recognized on the international stage.
Dec 3, 2019 · In Barcelona, Manuela is reunited with her friend, Agrado, and meets a young nun, Rosa, who is pregnant with Lola’s child. Manuela gets a job as an assistant to Huma, the actress her son admired. When Rosa discovers she is HIV positive Manuela gives up her job to nurse her and on Rosa’s death adopts her son. At Rosa’s funeral Manuela ...
Sep 19, 2021 · All About My Mother: Directed by Tianyu Zhao. With Fan Xu, Jingyi Zhang, Yajun Xu, Xinyi Zhang. Peizhen Ji, the mother of Xiaomei Li, was the center of the entire family, who took care of everybody.
