All About My Mother

All About My Mother

  • Director: Pedro Almodóvar
  • Countries of origin: Spain, France
  • Language: Spanish, Catalan
  • Release date: March 31, 2000
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Todo sobre mi madre
  • "Todo sobre mi madre" is a feature film directed by Pedro Almodóvar Caballero and starring Silia Love and Penelope Cruz. It was released in Spain on April 16, 1999.
    The film tells the story of Manuela, who traveled thousands of miles to find her husband in order to fulfill his son's last wish to meet his father Lola after his son Esther died in an accident   . In 2000, the film won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 57th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards and the 72nd Oscars Best Foreign Language Film Award   .

    Details

    • Release date March 31, 2000
    • Filming locations Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    • Production companies El Deseo, Renn Productions, France 2 Cinéma

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $8,344,738

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $50,362

    Gross worldwide

    $67,952,969

    Movie reviews

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    • By Aletha 2022-08-04 09:54:53

      All About My Mother--Almodovar's Hymn to Women

      Rosa, Ayue, and the heroine, with three completely different personalities, are all hurt by the same "male". Compared with the constant forgiveness of the three women, the male causes a lot of harm. Combined with Almodóvar's childhood injuries by men, the tribute to the power of women's love and the noble heart seems to show that the love brought by women is the only solution to the dilemma of human nature. With Wilder's wit, Buuel's surreal humanity, and Hitchcock's MacGuffin, A...

    • By Hailee 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      Everything about my mother, everything about you

      Who said that Almodovar's "All About My Mother" is as plain as running water, how could the life of such a tumultuous mother and such a tragic woman be plain?

      The story that just started is very warm, the daily life of a mother and son, because the mother and son are in harmony, the son will record everything about the mother all the time, that kind of memory is the attachment of one person to another person, and in this memory , but the existence of the...

    • By Angelina 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      "All About My Mother": What a Woman Should Be Like

      If I hadn't taken Mr. Dai Jinhua's film class, I would never have been able to take the initiative to see this film. Almodovar, the film's director, is said to be very good at targeting non-mainstream marginalized people. Everyone says it's a female-themed movie, maybe because every major character in the movie is female or has feminine qualities. I don't feel very deeply about this. On the contrary, the other three points left a more profound impression on me.

    • By Kacie 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      Esderban

      The movie is great! Manuela is a typical mother image, capable and courageous, gentle and tolerant, mature and stable. The woman's secret is revealed from the death of her son. A good movie is like an onion peeled off layer by layer with clear layers. The core of motherhood is the boundless love, accepting everything that is possible and impossible. The clam shell gave birth to pearls, and the compassion and Buddha nature on her body shone on those around her. Penelope Cruz is so...

    • By Lavonne 2022-04-24 07:01:07

      Why is it so touching?

      The color of the film is very bright, exciting, and large blocks of color, but the suffering, sadness, heaviness, gloom and desolation of life itself are pervasive.

      Most of the time I thought this was another gloomy and decadent Spanish film, but in the second half, we felt that the single mother who experienced the pain of losing her child was so tenacious, stoic, tolerant, kind and fraternity .

      Her feelings for Rosa exude the...

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    • By Mckenzie 2023-09-09 07:45:13

      If you live in suffering, you will live as beautiful as a flower. Probably only Almodovar can make such a pure female film, and can control such a strong and gorgeous color so...

    • By Kareem 2023-08-31 10:06:36

      Back then, there were no subtitles in Spanish class, so I just watched it like this. . Unique taste and a very good...

    • By Kolby 2023-08-21 12:03:54

      Just watching a movie is not enough. But life really should have more emotional and transcendental accumulation. Completely immersed in reality, it is easy to lose direction. In order to make the vision more open-minded, belief and literary edification are necessary. Whether it is necessary to return to the path of literary criticism depends on your talent, but it is necessary to go into reality. If you can walk in with "everything about yourself" and have an "I" in it, maybe even...

    • By Wilfred 2023-08-05 07:38:20

      About "A Streetcar Named Desire," about "Beauty in the Day," about Bette Davis and every woman who is "mother" in difficult times. Under such a heavy topic, there is still no lack of humor with icon-level film and television stalking and speech. So this kind of attention will be more poignant. [I searched the current situation of the "Esteban" actor, and I was a little disillusioned...

    • By Alysson 2023-06-03 08:46:16

      The captivating colors and soundtracks are the enjoyment of the art palace. From Almodovar's compassionate perspective, on these unfortunate women, what he sees is the brilliance of gentle humanity. Ayue is undoubtedly the most charming character in the whole film, but the handling of the protagonist's mother is rather disappointing. The way to save her is to give her another baby to make her a mother again. turn...

    Movie plot

    Manuela ( Silia Love ) 's husband left her before his son was born. As a result, Manuela became a single mother, and she brought her son Esteban to Madrid to live. Since the son never knew about his father, Manuela had to tell the son that his father had passed away. However, after all, the son did not believe that his father was no longer there. He quietly wrote down his thoughts about his father in his diary.
    Later, Esteban was killed...
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    "Todo sobre mi madre" is a film about women. In this simple story, the director uses the slow and smooth language of the lens to show the delicate feelings and invincible strength of women. The film does not express maternal love from the perspective of mainstream mothers, but expresses women's tolerance, optimism and kindness through a more alternative crowd in the eyes of the public. Repeated plots have appeared in the film many...
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