Cine Español – TODO SOBRE MI MADRE
( Ganadora de Oscar y 7 premios Goya )
( 97 min )
Dir : Pedro Almodóvar
el viernes 29 de enero a las 6.30pm
All About My Mother is a passionate hymn to the strength and spirit of women; a kaleidoscopic drama embracing motherhood, love and desire
The plot originates in Almodóvar’s earlier film The Flower of My Secret which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident.
Mature and moving aren’t words usually associated with “King of Kitsch” Pedro Almodóvar, but they certainly apply to this inspired comedy drama that’s littered with allusions to the Bette Davis classic All about Eve and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Devastated by the death of her son in a road accident, hospital worker Cecilia Roth donates his organs before leaving Madrid for Barcelona to carry out the boy’s wish and tell his absent father of his existence. It is here that she finds a whole new purpose in tending to a pregnant HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz) and a grande dame of the stage nearing the end of her career (Marisa Paredes). With sassy humour coming from Antonia San Juan as a transvestite prostitute awaiting a sex change, this fond, deliciously flamboyant study of womanhood and friendship is intense without ever being overbearing, and touching but never sentimental. It’s one of the Spanish director’s finest achievements and it earned him a best foreign language film Oscar plus two gongs at the Baftas
para mayores de 18 años / for adults over 18.