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(All About My Mother)
by
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain 1999
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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. *** Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a single mother who has raised her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), to adulthood on her own and has come to emotionally depend on him. One night, Manuela and Esteban take in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire; after the show, Esteban is struck and killed by a passing motorist as he dashes into the street to get an autograph from Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), who played Blanche. Emotionally devastated, Manuela relocates to Barcelona in hopes of finding her ex-husband (and Esteban's father), who is now working as a female impersonator. Manuela becomes reacquainted with old friend La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a transsexual, and is introduced to Sister Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a good-hearted nun who has to contend with her considerably more cynical mother (Rosa María Sardà). While looking for work, Manuela becomes acquainted with Huma Rojo. Huma, on the other hand, has troubles of her own, most involving her drug-addicted significant other, Nina (Candela Peña). Displaying Almodóvar's trademark visual style and a unusually strong sense of character-driven drama, Todo Sobre Mi Madre / All About My Mother received a highly anticipated theatrical run in Spain before winning the Best Director award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival; in 2000, Almodóvar would receive the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Excerpt from B+N located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: April 8th, 1999
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| Runtime | 1:41:24 | 1:37:09 (4% PAL Speed-up) | 1:41:39.134 |
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Widescreen 2.35:1 Average Bitrate: 4.66 mb/s NTSC 704x480 29.97 f/s |
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| Audio | Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Isolated Musical score. | Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 5.1) | DTS-HD Master Audio Spanish 3924 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3924 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) |
| Subtitles | English, French and None | French, None | English, None |
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Release Information:
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Release Information: Studio: Pathe
Edition Details:
Documents du festival de Cannes 1999: Montée des marches
(03:59
min), Cérémonie de clôture (04:30 min), Conférence de presse (06:45
min) €
Filmographies Acteurs et réalisateur € Theatrical Trailer (01:30 min)
€
Bonus Trailers for Talons Aiguillés (01:46 min), Kika (02:43 min), La
Flor
de mi secreto (02:10 min), Átame (00:36 min) € Notes de production
Original Theatrical Trailer
DVD Release Date: 26
April 2000 |
Release Information: Studio: Criterion
2.35 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 49,601,831,693 bytesFeature: 32,099,155,968 bytes Video Bitrate: 36.07 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details:
• 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 (52:19)
Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters 12 |
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On their
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Criterion use a DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround track (24-bit) in the original
Spanish language. It is another advancement in the film's audio and
score by Alberto Iglesias (Julieta,
Sex
and Lucia,
Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy,
Broken Embraces,
The Skin I Live In,
Che,
The Kite Runner etc.) plus the film has music such as Coral
para mi pequeño y lejano pueblo and Gorrión performed by Dino
Saluzzi (bandoneon), Marc Johnson and José Saluzzi and Tajabone
performed by Ismaël Lô. Effects
have exported separation (cars, rain etc.) and the lossless matches the
effectiveness of the HD video - excellent! Criterion offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Criterion
Blu-ray has
a 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 plus a
television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother,
Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth
running 13-minutes, There is also a forty-eight-minute post-screening
Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín
Almodóvar, and Paredes and the liner notes booklet has 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.
All About My
Mother
is many people's favorite Almodóvar's film. It touches on art and life
in such unique and prophetic ways. A masterpiece. We were thrilled that
Criterion were bringing it to
Blu-ray
and this package has met our high expectations - what an a/v
presentation and plenty of revealing supplements. Our highest
recommendation! |
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