(All About My Mother)
Spain (1999): Comedy/Drama
A single mother in Madrid (Cecilia Roth) sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado (Antonia San Juan), also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant to Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), the actress her son admired. She helps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's lover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With echoes of Lorca, All About Eve, and A Streetcar Named Desire, the mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship. Wirtten and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. (IMDb)
1 nomination, 1 Award
· Best Foreign Language Film for the Year 1999: (Spain) (Agustin Almodóvar, executive producer)