samuelding85 Review of All About My Mother

All About My Mother (1999)

Harsh world thru the eyes of a mother.

[9/10 · 26 November 2004]

Being a greenhorn to Almodovar's film, All About My Mother is the 1st movie from Almodovar i watched. Overall, All About My Mother is one of the finest film that i've watched, where it is hard for me to find any flaws in it. With Cecilia Roth playing Manuela, the nurse who lost her only son,Estaban, to an road accident, Manuela decided to fulfill her son's wish by looking for her son's father, which turns out to be Lola, who has become a transsexual. The whole movie is not only her journey of getting back a piece of memory of Estaban, but at the same time, it also looks into the world of transsexuals and lesbians. Not forgetting Penelope Cruz's role of Sister Rosa, a pregnant nun who contracted HIV from Lola. With conflicts between Huma, a theatre actress and Nina, her assistant come lover, Agardo's monologue on being a transsexual and unstable relationship between Sister Rosa and her mother, Almodovar presented us the dark side of human being, apart from a mother who wants to fulfill her dead son's wishes. Somehow, Almodovar hints us a message in most of his films, that even homosexuals and transsexuals are human beings, even though they are totally different from the rest. In all, All About My Mother is one of the few remarkable films that is worth watching.