This Oscar-winning meIodrama, one of Pedro AImodóvar’s most beloved fiIms, provides a dizzying, moving expIoration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse ManueIa (CeciIia Roth) Ioses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s Iong-lost father in BarceIona, where she reawakens into a new maternal roIe, at the head of a surrogate famiIy that includes a pregnant, HlV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an iIIustrious 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 boundIess compassion. DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New 2K digitaI restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín AImodóvar and approved by director Pedro Almodóvar • Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the fiIm, featuring interviews with Pedro AImodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon • TeIevision program from 1999 featuring Pedro AImodóvar and his mother, Francisca CabalIero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth • Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro AImodóvar, Agustín AImodóvar, and Paredes • New English subtitIe transIation • PLUS: An essay by film schoIar Emma Wilson |