Todo Sobre Mi Madre
When her teenage son Esteban is killed in a car crash, grieving middle-aged nurse Manuela heads to Barcelona in search of the boy’s father, whom Esteban had never met.
Please note that this film is in Spanish and Catalan, with Dutch subtitles.
While searching the city for her former lover, Manuela reluctantly becomes the hub of a makeshift matriarchal community that includes a pregnant nun, a trans hustler, and the glamorous actress whom her son idolized. With TODO SOBRE MI MADRE, Almodóvar set out to make a film in the vein of the director he had long proclaimed his idol – Douglas Sirk – and took home his first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in return.
Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, France, 1999, 101 min. Spanish & Catalan spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz.