All About My Mother
film by Almodóvar [1999]
Also known as: “Todo sobre mi madre”
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discussed in biography
- In Pedro Almodóvar
…Todo sobre mi madre (1999; All About My Mother), which he also wrote. The film—the bittersweet story of a woman’s search for her recently deceased son’s father—won an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, and Almodóvar was honoured as best director at the Cannes film festival. He received similar praise…
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history of motion pictures
- In history of film: European cinema
…Todo sobre mi madre (1999; All About My Mother), Habla con ella (2002; Talk to Her), La mala educación (2004; Bad Education), Volver (2006), La piel que habito (2011; The Skin I Live In), Julieta (2016), and Dolor y gloria (2019; Pain and Glory
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