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All about my mother [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Almodóvar,

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The Criterion Collection, 2020.

Children -- Death -- Drama.

Transgender people -- Drama.

Prostitution -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1012.

9781681436838 :

Alternate title:

Todo sobre mi madre [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

A Spain/France co-production.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Director, Pedro Almodovar.

Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan.

The Oscar-winning melodrama provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. 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.

Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film, 1999.

Golden Globe Award: Best Foreign Language Film, 1999.

BAFTA Awards: David Lean Award for Best Direction and Best Film not in the English Language, 1999.

Feminist films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

2SLGBTQIA+ films.

Almodóvar, Pedro.

Cruz, Penélope.

Paredes, Marisa, 1946-

Roth, Cecilia, 1958-

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