All About My Mother Blu-Ray (US Import)

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All About My Mother Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Original title: Todo sobre mi madre

Year: 1999
Country: Spain
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515240611

Image: 2.35:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Spanish - 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio

Subtitles: English

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz

Director: Pedro Almodóvar


Synopsis:

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 (Penelope 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.

Extras:

• 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