All About My Mother (1999)
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THE SPIRIT OF 99 VIEWING CLUB - Following the death of her son, Manuela goes to tell the sad news to her boy's father, who is living as a woman, amid a heartfelt encrustation of classic Hollywood tropes and references.
DID EBERT LIKE IT? "All About My Mother" is one of the best films of the Spanish director, whose films present a Tennessee Williams sensibility in the visual style of a 1950s Universal-International tearjerker. Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone never seem very far offscreen. Bette Davis isn't offscreen at all: Almodovar's heroines seem to be playing her. Self-parody is part of Almodovar's approach, but "All About My Mother" is also sincere and heartfelt; though two of its characters are transvestite hookers, one is a pregnant nun and two more are battling lesbians, this is a film that paradoxically expresses family values."
The Trailer. Pedro winning the Academy Award. (HAS TO BE WATCHED, SO CRAZY LONG AND SINCERE)
Reverse Shot on All About My Mother "In this film, womanhood, on any terms, implies a kind of acting, whereby a person effectively authors herself through performance. "
DID EBERT LIKE IT? "All About My Mother" is one of the best films of the Spanish director, whose films present a Tennessee Williams sensibility in the visual style of a 1950s Universal-International tearjerker. Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone never seem very far offscreen. Bette Davis isn't offscreen at all: Almodovar's heroines seem to be playing her. Self-parody is part of Almodovar's approach, but "All About My Mother" is also sincere and heartfelt; though two of its characters are transvestite hookers, one is a pregnant nun and two more are battling lesbians, this is a film that paradoxically expresses family values."
The Trailer. Pedro winning the Academy Award. (HAS TO BE WATCHED, SO CRAZY LONG AND SINCERE)
Reverse Shot on All About My Mother "In this film, womanhood, on any terms, implies a kind of acting, whereby a person effectively authors herself through performance. "
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I've never loved Almodóvar the way I did in this movie. Pitch perfect, sad and over the top, so beautiful.
posted by ipsative at 7:11 AM on January 24, 2015