All About My Mother
This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) 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 (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín Almodóvar and approved by director Pedro Almodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon
- Television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth
- Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson, along with an interview with Pedro Almodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999
New cover by Petra Eriksson
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín Almodóvar and approved by director Pedro Almodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon
- Television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth
- Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson, along with an interview with Pedro Almodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999
New cover by Petra Eriksson
Cast
- Cecilia Roth
- Manuela
- Marisa Paredes
- Huma Rojo
- Penélope Cruz
- Sister Rosa
- Antonia San Juan
- Agrado
- Candela Peña
- Nina
- Rosa Maria Sardá
- Rosa’s mother
Credits
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Written by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Executive producer
- Agustín Almodóvar
- Director of production
- Esther García
- Director of photography
- Affonso Beato
- Editor
- José Salcedo
- Music
- Alberto Iglesias
- Sound
- Miguel Rejas
- Art director
- Antxón Gómez
- Associate producer
- Michel Ruben
- Makeup
- Juan Pedro Hernández
- Costumes
- Jose María de Cossío
- Costumes
- Jean-Jacques Puchu
- First assistant director
- Pedro Lazaga
- Second camera operator
- Joaquín Manchado
A scene from All About My Mother
