Premios ACE Award for Best Supporting Actor – Cinema (Fernando Fernán Gómez. You don't know where to position yourself while you're watching a film like "All About My Mother," and that's part of the appeal: Do you take it seriously, like the characters do, or do you notice the bright colors and flashy art decoration, the cheerful homages to Tennessee Williams and "All About Eve" (1950) and see it as a parody? Lola (whose birth name was Esteban), who is dying from AIDS, talks about how she always wanted a son, and Manuela tells her about her own Esteban and how he died in an accident.
Premios ACE Award for Best Supporting Actress – Cinema (Marisa Paredes, This page was last edited on 16 October 2020, at 23:13. [13] Music by the film's composer, Alberto Iglesias, was incorporated into the stage production, with additional music by Max and Ben Ringham. "[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 87 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". To men who act and become women. The father does not understand who Manuela is, and Rosa's mother (Rosa Maria Sardà) says it's the new cook, who is living there with her son. Manuela has to agree with her colleagues at work that her son's heart be transplanted to a man in A Coruña. Even Almodovar's camera sometimes doesn't know where to stand: When the heroine's son writes in his journal, the camera looks at his pen from the point of view of the paper. First she finds her friend, Agrado, a wild yet caring transgender woman; through her she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, but instead finds out she is pregnant by Lola. 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 and Rosa Maria Sardà. Summaries Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela. It eventually grossed €9,962,047 in Spain ($12,595,016), $8,272,296 in the US and $59,600,000 in foreign markets for a worldwide box office total of $67,872,296. Manuela is the heroine of the film and its center, but Agrado is the source of life. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transgender woman named Lola who does not know she has a child. And Agrado finds a job as Huma's personal assistant. In the film, grieving relatives are asked to allow the organs of their loved ones to be used; later Manuela plays the same scene for real, as she's asked to donate her own son's heart. The soundtrack includes "Gorrión" and "Coral para mi pequeño y lejano pueblo", written by Dino Saluzzi and performed by Saluzzi, Marc Johnson, and José Saluzzi, and "Tajabone", written and performed by Ismaël Lô. She finds her old friend Agrado who is also a transvestite.
On her way to the hospital, Rosa asks the taxi to stop at a park where she spots her father's dog, Sapic, and then her own father (Fernando Fernán Gómez), who suffers from Alzheimer's; he does not recognize Rosa and asks for her age and height, but Sapic recognizes Rosa. | Bette Davis isn't offscreen at all: Almodovar's heroines seem to be playing her.
Almodóvar dedicates his film "To all actresses who have played actresses. Look out, Hollywood, here he comes". Have you?" Almodovar's earlier films sometimes seemed to be manipulating the characters as an exercise.
None of these goings-on is presented as sordid or seedy. Meanwhile, the search goes on for the missing lover. There are unexpected connections between the characters, even between Esteban's father and Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a nun who works in a shelter for battered prostitutes. [9], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 88 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 8.08/10. Rated R They've gone to see a performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1993) and now wait across the street from the stage door so Esteban can get an autograph from the famous actress Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes). It becomes quite clear that in All about my mother the focus is concentrated on the relationships that Manuela holds and creates with the other women in the film. Here the plot does handstands in its eagerness to use coincidence, surprise and melodrama. Self-parody is part of Almodovar's approach, but "All About My Mother" is also … She added, "It's the crossover moment in the career of a born four-hankie storyteller of ever-increasing stature. Almodóvar's earlier films sometimes seemed to be manipulating the characters as an exercise. Self-parody is part of Almodovar's approach, but "All About My Mother" is also sincere and heartfelt; though two of its characters are transvestite hookers, one is a pregnant nun and two more are battling lesbians, this is a film that paradoxically expresses family values. Rosa dies giving birth to her son, and Lola (Toni Cantó) and Manuela finally reunite at Rosa's funeral. The film centers on Manuela (Cecilia Roth), an Argentine nurse who oversees donor organ transplants in Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid and single mother to Esteban (Eloy Azorín), a teenager who wants to be a writer. The Barcelona scenes reflect Almodovar's long-standing interest in characters who cross the gender divide. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. | . [6], Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "No one else makes movies like this Spanish director" and added, "In other hands, these characters might be candidates for confessions – and brawls – on The Jerry Springer Show, but here they are handled with utmost sympathy. After Rosa has the baby, she dies from AIDS, and Lola comes back and is also dying from AIDS and meets his new son who Manuela names Esteban.
Manuela helps take care of Rosa, and works for Huma. [4], Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it Almodóvar's "best film by far", noting he "presents this womanly melodrama with an empathy to recall George Cukor's and an eye-dampening intensity to out-Sirk Douglas Sirk".
These are people who stand outside conventional life and its rules, and yet affirm them. 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 and Rosa Maria Sardà. "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. The presentation is as bright, glossy and seductive as a fashion magazine . [3], The film premiered in Spain on 8 April 1999 and went into general theatrical release on 16 April. Esteban, Cecilia Roth's son, dies in an automobile accident in Madrid. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transgender woman named Lola who does not know she has a child. The film was a commercial and critical success internationally, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in addition to the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Direction (Almodóvar). The storyline describe a single mother Manuela witness his son die in a car accident when he run to ask for an autograph. After the play, they wait outside to get the autograph of one of the actresses. This poster was designed to epitomize the very image of beauty, simplicity, and femininity. A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. In one scene, she dresses in a Chanel knockoff and is asked if it is real. When Manuela asks Huma about Nina, Huma becomes melancholic and leaves.
Her life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy and works for Huma as her personal assistant and even acts in the play as an emergency understudy for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.
Manuela then adopts Esteban, Rosa's child, and stays with him at Rosa's parents' house. . And new connections are forged. We meet the actress Huma Rojo once again, and her girlfriend and co-star Nina (Candela Pena): "She's hooked on junk and I'm hooked on her." To all women who act.
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