All About My Mother
1999 ‘Todo sobre mi madre’ Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
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Pedro Almodóvar tells the story of a woman searching for the father of her son as she is confronted with her past.
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A compelling drama film from the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Great mix of entertainment and serious issues. Thumbs up.
4.3/5
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It's as if he found every strong female role and put into one film
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This is one of the most wellplayed movies I have ever seen. There are a lot of emotions visualized in a way rarely seen. The set is great and the casting is perfekt. Acting is supergreat and even though I do not sympathize with all the characters the story telling is of the kind that really takes you in. It grasps you by the b-lls and holds it tight until the end. Its a multidimensional story were small things and details are not left out. It´s in the eye of the beholder to interperate and make something out of it. This is a really big like from me and I can strongly recommend the movie.
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Visually gorgeous, unique plot, and great acting. I especially enjoyed Marisa Paredes as the actress Huma Rojo and Penelope Cruz as Hermana Rosa. I need to see more Almodovar!
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A character herein opines that her daughter has been "like an alien" since birth and this is how I feel watching this extraordinary film. In fact this feels more like science-fiction to me than most stock sci-fi, I find it so disorientating - the characters, the lives, the aesthetic, the moral universe are a galaxy away (if a universe can be a galaxy away) from my experience and that of pretty much every other film going.
Simply the sheer amount of screen time comprising of women-only would mark this and other Almodovar films out as extraordinary - an extended scene of 4 women talking is as rare as can be in cinema; I've seen more scenes of men biting fingers off this year.
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Pedro Almodovar's beautiful and heartfelt feature All About My Mother closes with a dedication to "Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider...To all actresses that had played as actresses, to all women that act, to all men that act and become women, to all the people that want to be mothers. To my mother." It's a touching sendoff and one that speaks a lot to Almodovar's passion for women and specifically for actresses. He's always been a filmmaker renowned for his work with females, providing a lot of strong roles for women in an industry where that is all too rare, and All About My Mother is a feature loaded with great parts for great women.
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Almodovar makes movies about fasinating, non-mainstream lives that seem perfectly ordinary when you watch them yet when you are telling someone else that it was "a movie about a trannie who knocks up two different women, twenty years apart..." then it hits you.
Genius.
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It's as if he found every strong female role and put into one film
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A compelling drama film from the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Great mix of entertainment and serious issues. Thumbs up.
4.3/5
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This is one of the most wellplayed movies I have ever seen. There are a lot of emotions visualized in a way rarely seen. The set is great and the casting is perfekt. Acting is supergreat and even though I do not sympathize with all the characters the story telling is of the kind that really takes you in. It grasps you by the b-lls and holds it tight until the end. Its a multidimensional story were small things and details are not left out. It´s in the eye of the beholder to interperate and make something out of it. This is a really big like from me and I can strongly recommend the movie.
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An astonishing film from Almodovar. Maybe his best film. The cast is simply terrific. Almodovar's manipulation of melodrama is his best asset.
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After the death of her son a woman relocates to a different city to try to find the father her son never knew. Once relocated she becomes involved in the lives of an assortment of oddball characters. Another gem from one of the greatest directors working today.
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Visually gorgeous, unique plot, and great acting. I especially enjoyed Marisa Paredes as the actress Huma Rojo and Penelope Cruz as Hermana Rosa. I need to see more Almodovar!
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This was my first Almodóvar film. I'd heard the name a few times, but my still-forming film brain hadn't really branched out into world cinema yet. I went into this movie knowing absolutely nothing about Pedro's particular brand of cinema...which is why I brought my grandparents with me. Seeing as the film is in Spanish and mis abuelos are Mexican, this seemed like a perfect fit. Also, they'd gone with me to see Life Is Beautiful a year prior. Things got a little awkward during the first scene with Agrado (you couldn't help but notice my grandpa starting to squirm in his seat) yet surprisingly, we stayed through the entire film. Even more surprisingly, my grandparents really enjoyed it. This…
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Todo lo que me gusta de Almodóvar está en esta película. #AMQIGP