All about my mother = Todo sobre mi madre
(DVD)

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Contributors
Almodóvar, Pedro, film director,
Roth, Cecilia, 1958- actor.
Paredes, Marisa, 1946- actor.
Peña, Candela, actor.
San Juan, Antonia, actor.
Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, 2020.
Format
DVD
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12).
Status
Main Library - Media
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Published
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, 2020.
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
Spanish
UPC
715515240710

Notes

General Note
Title and credits from screen.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
General Note
Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio)
General Note
Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Pedro Almodóvar and executive producer Agustin Almodóvar; Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar, actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan, production manager Esther Garcia, and author Didier Eribon; Television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, Paredes, Roth, and San Juan; Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar, and Paredes; New English subtitle translation; An essay by scholar Emma Wilson.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Affonso Beato ; editor, José Salcedo ; music, Alberto Iglesias.
Participants/Performers
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa María Sardá, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Fernando Guillén, Toni Cantó.
Description
"This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar's most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) 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, as the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion"--Container.
System Details
DVD format; NTSC, region 1; 16:9 widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; 5.1 surround.
Language
Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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