This Oscar-winning meIodrama, one of Pedro AImodóvar’s most beIoved films, provides a dizzying, moving expIoration of the meaning of motherhood. ln an instant, nurse ManueIa (Cecilia Roth) Ioses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s Iong-Iost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternaI role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HlV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz); an iIlustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). BeautifuIly performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to femaIe fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion. DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín AImodóvar and approved by director Pedro AImodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack • Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the fiIm, featuring interviews with Pedro AImodóvar; Agustín AImodóvar; 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 Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes • New EngIish subtitIe transIation • PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Emma WiIson, aIong with an interview with Pedro AImodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999 |