All About My Mother (Criterion Collection)

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	Cecilia Roth	Manuela
	Marisa Paredes	Huma Rojo
	Candela Peña	Nina
	Antonia San Juan	Agrado
	Penelope Cruz	Hermana Rosa
	Rosa Maria Sardá	Madre de Rosa
	Fernando Fernán Gómez	Padre de Rosa
	Fernando Guillén	Doctor en 'Un tranvía llamado Deseo'
	Toni Canto	Lola
	Carlos Lozano	Mario
	Eloy Azorin	Esteban
	Manuel Morón	Doctor 1
	José Luis Torrijo	Doctor 2
	Juan Jose Otegui	Ginecólogo
	Carmen Balagué
	Malena Gutiérrez	Malena
	Yael Barnatán	Yael
	Carme Fortuny	Carmen
	Patxi Freytez	Farmacéutico
	Juan Marquez
	Michel Ruben	Alex
	Daniel Lanchas
	Rosa Manaut
	Carlos García Cambero	Heart Recipient
	Agustín Almodóvar	Taxista

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Director	Pedro Almodóvar
Writer	Pedro Almodóvar
Producer	Agustin Almodovar, Claude Berri, Michel Ruben
Musician	Alberto Iglesias
Photography	Affonso Beato

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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.


DIRECTOR-APPROVED 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 on the Blu-ray
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 (Blu-ray only) an interview with Pedro Almodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999
New cover by Petra Eriksson

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