All About My Mother

Pros: Well-acted, extremely nonjudgmental towards some pretty dodgy characters.
Cons: Divides world into mothers or harlots(or both). Elusive if you don't worship divas.

The winner of the 1999 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Feature was Pedro Almodovar's "Todo sobre mi madre," a wildly-melodramatic yet heartfelt drama about the interaction of very different women in modern-day, crazily-transgendered Barcelona. The...

Pros: Complex and layered masterpiece
Cons: Subtitles for those who don't like subtitles

Sometimes you know it when you are seeing a classic.

It was not easy for me to follow All About My Mother for maybe the first hour. More of a puzzle-why is this happening? What is she doing that? Why does the boy have to die in that auto...

Pros: funny, story, acting
Cons: it is in spanish

Pedro Almodovar directs this movie. It is a funny and is a crowd pleaser. It will please women and those who yearn to join a sorority. Cecilia Roth plays a single mother who is on a quest to honor her dead son by seeking out the boy’s natural father. His...

Pros: Women, Story, Almodovar
Cons: Not all can be as good as the first 15 minutes

If this movie was only 15 minutes long it will be the best movie ever. However is longer than that so it is only (only?) one of the best ever. Almodovar gives us the joy of his previous films mixed with his recently acquired maturity. Since "Live...

Pros: beautiful tale
Cons: none

My best friend saw this film in Spain last year and has praised it nonstop ever since. She claims that this is right up my alley. She described it as a tale of hilarious transsexuals and the eternal bond between women. I was not disappointed.
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Pros: It's so great
Cons: None

I have never before seen a movie by Pedro Almodovar. I had heard some things, but I really didn't know what to expect with All About My Mother. Even while watching the film I was a little left out on the point of the movie. Then the last scene came...

Pros: unpredictable plot, fast-paced, well-acted
Cons: for hardcore Almodovar fans, it's a little mellow

As a Pedro Almodovar fan, this was the first of his movies that I've had the privilege to see in the theaters. And I was not disappointed.

Right from the beginning, Almodovar sets up the movie "All About Eve" and the play "A...

Pros: The directing is amazing; interesting story-line!
Cons: Transvestites, Prostitutes, very disturbing...

As this was my first foreign film, I did not know quite what to expect of it. I watched it in Spanish; I do not know whether or not it even comes in English, yet it did have English subtitles. Yes, that way English-speaking audiences can...

Pros: superb acting, good story, lovely filming
Cons: subtitles... some dialog missed

I probably won't get to see all the nominees for Best Foreign Film this year; we live in a small town where we barely got to see Being John Malkovich before it went to video!

Anyway, I do think this film deserves an Oscar even if I don't know...

Pros: gripping, honest, great cinematography
Cons: melodramatic toward the end

So the best film of the preceding year was "American Beauty." If I had "best of 1999" list, "Todo sobre mi madre" ("All About My Mother") by Pedro Almodóvar would sure as heck be a close number two.
In fact,...

Pros: A visionary director discovers a newfound sense of maturity.
Cons: Not enough people have seen it.

Without dropping any of his usual trademarks (garish colours, campy visuals, drag queens, frazzled women), Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodovar discovers a newfound sense of maturity with All About My Mother. Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Film and...

Pros: intriguing intro
Cons: doesn't live up to intro

You have to hand it to All About My Mother--rare is the movie that can belittle nuns, hookers, and A Streetcar Name Desire in one fell swoop. And offensiveness seems to be the movie's only motivation--it travels through endless vignettes with very little...

Pros: Well acted, well directed film
Cons: The oddity of Cecelia Roth's role as mother.

This is one of the most interesting videos I've viewed in a long while. While its basic premise is about women (mothers in particular), it's view of women and those who would be women is astounding and yet quite credible.
The plot is about a woman...

Pros: wonderful, heartfelt, funny film
Cons: NONE

All About My Mother is a heartfelt, crazy, hysterically funny film about a broken woman putting everything back together after the death of her son. But the film is so much more than just that. With each minute you're in the theatre, more and more...

Pros: great plot, acting, characters
Cons: none

I will not ramble on about how good foreign films can be. For the all hype and praise some get, they can be really disappointing. This movie will move you. It is worth seeing. It is a story that is seldom told in American movies. The characters are real...