All About My Mother

Name: All About My Mother
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1999-04-16
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz

Part of every woman is a mother/actress/saint/sinner. And part of every man is a woman.

Todo sobre mi madre (1999)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

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Video for the film All About My Mother — All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) [Oscar's Best Foreign Movie]

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Release date

1999-04-16

Country

Spain, France

Production

Canal+, France 2 Cinéma, Renn Productions, El Deseo, Vía Digital

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$5 000 000

Box office

$67 872 296

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Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Actors

Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa María Sardà, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Fernando Guillén, Toni Cantó, Carlos Lozano
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Scenario

Producer

Agustín Almodóvar

Camera operator

Affonso Beato

Composer

Alberto Iglesias

Artist

Antxón Gómez

Audition

Sara Bilbatúa, Mamen Moya, Pilar Moya

Editing

José Salcedo
Whole Team (127)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Radost's monologue is based on a real event. When the electronic system of the Teatro Argentino failed, the director cancelled the performance. Actress Lola Membrives decided to inform the audience in the hall and made them an offer: if they stayed, she would tell them the story of her life.
Manuela Coleman is a character in Pedro Almodóvar's film 'The Flower of My Secret'.
’All About My Mother’ is the first film by Pedro Almodóvar largely shot outside of Madrid. The director pays tribute to Spain’s second largest city – Barcelona.
Pedro Almodóvar dedicated his film ‘…to all the actors who act; all the women who act; all the men who act and transform into women; and to all those who want to be a mother and their mother’.
In his notes on the film, Pedro Almodóvar recalls Blanche Dubois’s line (“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Williams) “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” and notes that in the film, the strangers are women.
'All About My Mother' is the first Pedro Almodóvar film where the majority was shot outside of Madrid. The director pays tribute to Spain's second-largest city, Barcelona.
Pedro Almodóvar dedicated his film '...to all the actresses who act; to all the women who act; to all the men who act and transform into women; to all those who wish to become mothers, and to their own mothers.'
In the film's notes, Pedro Almodóvar recalls Blanche DuBois's phrase from Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire'—'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'—and notes that in the film, the strangers are women.