All about this brilliant film (All About My Mother (DVD))

Member Name: shootyourshot

Product:	All About My Mother (DVD)
Date:	05/05/01 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: excellent cast, great performances, top script and set design

Disadvantages: subtitles but its worth it, adult themes

Onr of Pedro Almodovar's most recent films and one which I was looking forward to very much. I wasn't dissapointed as this was a first rate production. subtitled.

The story centres around Manuela and her sensitive son Esteban. For a birthday treat the single Manuela takes him to see a show featuring his favourite actress - Cecilia Roth. Manuela is a single parent and has never told esteban who ihis father is, after a tragic accident, Manuela sets out to find estebans father and tell him about their son. The shocks and jokes come along with her journey as do a bizzare multitude of characters typical of almodovar's style - we have the lesbian actress, her junkie assistant, a couple of transexuals and a nun.

I wont spoil any detail of the film as it is to be savoured but heres a hint - before viewing this film, watch the sublime All About Eve starring Bette Davis, All about my Mother is a pastiche and homage to this classic with minor references (it is playing on the television etc.)

All in all a classy melodrama delivered in Almodovar's unique style with a touch of black comedy, pathos and irony thrown in, a must see!!! The subtitles seem to dissolve after a while and you forget that the film is spanish.

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