Todo sobre mi madre [videorecording] = All about my mother / Sony Pictures Classics ; El Deseo S.A. presenta ; una coproducion El Deseo S.A., Renn Productions, France 2 Cinéma ; con la participación de Vía Digital ; un film de Almodóvar ; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar ; productor ejecutivo, Agustín Almodóvar.
Format:
[videorecording] =
Publisher:
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa María Sardá, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Fernando Guillén, Toni Cantó. Originally produced as a Spanish motion picture in 1999.
Contents:
Writing muse -- Date night at the theater -- Following his heart -- Unsettled business -- Helping people -- Alarming news -- Story of a friend -- Show must go on -- Girl gossip -- Mother's intuition -- Very agreeable -- So much change.
Summary:
Manuela is a devoted single mother who needs to come to grips with the death of her 17-year-old son, Esteban. She had never told Esteban about his father, but after reading her son's journal she realizes she has to find Esteban's father, and explain what has happened. She leaves Madrid for Barcelona, to reconnect with her old friend Agrado, who introduces her to Rosa, a young nun in trouble, and Huma Rojo, a brilliant actress whom young Esteban idolized. A Hollywood melodrama done up as Greek tragedy translated into the context of everyday modern life, the film sums up both the boundlessness and the limitations of a mother's love.
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