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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. Bette Davis isn't offscreen at all: Almodovar's heroines seem to be playing her.
New friends help a woman (Cecilia Roth) struggling to get her life in order after her son's (Eloy Azorín) death.
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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.
