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All about my mother = Todo sobre mi madre

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN, WSQ)

Edition

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Languages

In Spanish, with English subtitles.

Performers

Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Rosa María Sarda.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: R; for sexuality including strong sexual dialogue, language and some drug content.

Summary

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 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; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker. 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.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Pedro Almodovar and executive producer Agustin Almodovar ; fifty-two minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodovar; Agustin Almodovar; actors Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Ester Garcia; and author Didier Eribon ; television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodovar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, Paredes, Roth, and San Juan ; forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodovar, Agustin Almodovar, and Parades ; new English subtitle translation.

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