All about my mother

DVD 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.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Grief Fiction

Mothers and sons Fiction

Single mothers Fiction

More in this Genre:

Feature films Fiction films Foreign films Motion pictures, Spanish Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1012 Criterion collection ; 1012 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681436838
9781435993693
1435993691
0767847105

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A
MPAA rating: R

Other Title:

Todo sobre mi madre (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Title from container
Essay by film scholar Emma Wilson in container
Features: documentary (2012) on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan, production manager Esther García, and author Didier Eribon; television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth; post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes; new Englishsubtitle translation
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
In Spanish with optional English subtitles

Control Number:

3015298

UPC:

043396047198
043396332232
715515240710

Other Authors:

Almodóvar, Pedro, screenwriter, film director
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Cruz, Penélope, actor
Paredes, Marisa, 1946- actor
Peña, Candela, actor
Roth, Cecilia, 1958- actor
San Juan, Antonia, actor

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