Container of (work): All about my mother (Motion picture)
Notes:
Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) Special features: making-of documentary from 2012 (52 min.) featuring interviews with cast and crew ; 1999 television program featuring the director, his mother, cast and crew ; 2019 post-screening Q&A from Madrid (48 min.) ; essay by scholar Emma Wilson.
Summary:
In an instant, nurse Manuela 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; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker.
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