All About My Mother

Name: All About My Mother
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Released: 1999

Pedro Almodóvar

1999

4.75

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Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

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New York Daily News
Almodovar is adept at weaving together strands you'd never guess would match.
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Film.com
Funny and wise, lively and contemplative, intriguingly postmodern and powerfully moving, all at the same time. It's not to be missed.
90
Salon
So intrinsically rich that it doesn't need any metaphors.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
This is more than a movie: It's Almodovar's design for living.
88
Charlotte Observer
Almodovar still populates his work with characters you'll see nowhere else in movies.
88
Christian Science Monitor
Some will find the movie's sexual antics too explicit and unconventional for comfort.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As dark as a Greek tragedy yet it has a vibrance and joie de vivre that can't be contained by grief.
80
Washington Post
It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.

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