All About My Mother

All About My Mother

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1999 • Spain
Starring Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes

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, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion.

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All About My Mother
  • All About My Mother
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    All About My Mother

    All About My Mother

    Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1999 • Spain
    Starring Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes

    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 t...

Extras

  • Once Upon a Time: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
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    Once Upon a Time: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

    Once Upon a Time: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

    This fifty-two minute documentary from 2012 features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García, producer Agustín Almodóvar; and author Didier Eribon.

  • Weekly Report: All About Almodóvar
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    Weekly Report: All About Almodóvar

    Weekly Report: All About Almodóvar

    In this 1999 Spanish television program, director Pedro Almodóvar returns home to the small town of Calzada de Calatrava, Spain, along with his mother, Francisca Caballero, to discuss her influence on his life and work. Actors Penélope Cruz, Antonia San Juan, Marisa Paredes, and Cecilia Roth are ...

  • Versión Española: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
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    Versión Española: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

    Versión Española: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

    In this forty-eight minute 2019 television program, director Pedro Almodóvar, producer Agustín Almodóvar, and actor Marisa Paredes participate in a Q&A after a screening of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER at the Filmoteca española's Cine Doré in Madrid

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