All About My Mother

Original title: Todo sobre mi madre

1999
15
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

105K

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A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

105K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 Oscar
- 59 wins & 40 nominations total

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Trivia
Agrado's monologue was based on a real life event. When the electronic system of an Argentinian theater failed, the director suspended the show. Actress Lola Membrives decided to give the news to the audience and make them an offer: if they'd stay, they could listen to the narration of her life.

Quotes
Agrado: Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

Alternate versions
Three minutes are cut from the US version. The total running time of the Spanish version is 104 minutes.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Instinct/The Loss of Sexual Innocence/Limbo (1999)

Soundtracks
Gorrión
Written by Dino Saluzzi
Performed by Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Marc Johnson and José Saluzzi
Courtesy of ECM Records
(from "Cité de la musique" 1997)

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Featured review

8/10

A VERY PRIVATE UNIVERSE

Very few directors, since Bunuel, Fassbinder, Lindsay Anderson and Roman Polanski, have been able to translate their own, very private universes, to the screen. That is why, it divides audiences in such a radical way.

You love it or you hate it. I think, that is the final objective of an artist, to express their view, to give us their own version of the world we live in. It enriches us, it makes us more aware of the million faces of human nature. Thanks to Almodovar we're allowed to feel identified with, what we may consider, marginal characters. What a different experience is to sit through an Almodovar film and a Ron Howard film for instance. Almodovar remains, becomes part of us, Ron Howard's vanishes as we're leaving the movie theater.