Reviews of All About My Mother 1999
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Todo sobre mi madre
"This is a very odd film about a woman who loses her teenage son, and goes to find the man who never knew of his son's existence. I need to watch A Streetcar Named Desire now, to understand the references, that may help me to understand this film?" -
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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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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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…