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{es} Todo sobre mi madre / {en} All About My Mother (Spain, 1999), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Rosa Maria Sardà.

Pedro Almodovar's Oscar-winning comedy (Best Foreign Film, 1999) about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover and a pregnant nun.

Almodóvar’s masterpiece. His skills as a writer, a director of actors, a visual stylist and a passionate chronicler of the marginalised, outcast, lost or dispossessed, all converge in this emotional story of a mother, her son and a former lover, which draws on the melodramas of Douglas Sirk, the theatre of Tennessee Williams and a wealth of other sources. It’s a radiant, moving and singular drama by one of contemporary cinema’s most gifted filmmakers.

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