All about my mother = Todo sobre mi madre

Blu-ray 2020

The Oscar-winning melodrama 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

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Mothers and sons Fiction

Single mothers Drama

More in this Genre:

Drama Feature films Fiction films Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1012 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 1012

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ISBN:

9781681436821

Edition:

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
digital
optical
5.1 surround
videodisc
Blu-ray
video file
Blu-ray
region A
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: 14A

Other Title:

Todo sobre mi madre
Todo sobre mi madre (Motion picture)

Notes:

Title from sell sheet
Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999
Special features: making-of documentary from 2012 (52 min.) featuring interviews with cast and crew ; 1999 television program featuring the director, his mother, cast and crew ; 2019 post-screening Q&A from Madrid (48 min.) ; essay by scholar Emma Wilson
Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan
Blu-ray; Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; requires Blu-ray player; 5.1 surround
Spanish dialogue; English subtitles

LCCN:

be2019034094

Control Number:

3015297

UPC:

715515240611

Other Authors:

Almodóvar, Pedro, film director
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Cruz, Penélope, actor
Paredes, Marisa, 1946- actor
Roth, Cecilia, 1958- actor

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