Pedro Almodóvar

All About My Mother

All About My Mother

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, at 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.

Film Info

  • Spain
  • 1999
  • 101 minutes
  • Color
  • 2.35:1
  • Spanish
  • Spine #1012

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín Almodóvar and approved by director Pedro Almodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon
  • Television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth
  • Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes
  • New English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson, along with an interview with Pedro Almodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999

New cover by Petra Eriksson

Purchase Options

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín Almodóvar and approved by director Pedro Almodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon
  • Television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth
  • Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes
  • New English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson, along with an interview with Pedro Almodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999

New cover by Petra Eriksson

All About My Mother
Cast
Cecilia Roth
Manuela
Marisa Paredes
Huma Rojo
Penélope Cruz
Sister Rosa
Antonia San Juan
Agrado
Candela Peña
Nina
Rosa Maria Sardá
Rosa’s mother
Credits
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Written by
Pedro Almodóvar
Executive producer
Agustín Almodóvar
Director of production
Esther García
Director of photography
Affonso Beato
Editor
José Salcedo
Music
Alberto Iglesias
Sound
Miguel Rejas
Art director
Antxón Gómez
Associate producer
Michel Ruben
Makeup
Juan Pedro Hernández
Costumes
Jose María de Cossío
Costumes
Jean-Jacques Puchu
First assistant director
Pedro Lazaga
Second camera operator
Joaquín Manchado

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