All About My Mother (1999)

	Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
	Gary Mairs - culturevulture.net
	Peter Brunette - Film.com
	Lou Lumenick - NY Post
	Janet Maslin - NY Times
	Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
	Kenneth Turan - LA Times
	Jay Carr - Boston Globe
	James Berardinelli - ReelViews
	John Hartl - Seattle Times
	Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
	Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
	Jane Sumner - Dallas Morning News
	Mike Clark - USA Today
	Rita Kempley - Washington Post

“Few melodramas with such tragic underpinnings have ever made me feel so intensely happy”

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

“It’s the most grown-up of [director Pedro Almodóvar’s] curious films. It’s also the least fun”

- Rita Kempley

All About My Mother

Following her recently killed son's wishes, a single mother travels to Barcelona to find the boy’s father and to tell him about their son. Cecilia Roth, Eloy Azorin, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz, Candela Pena, Antonia San Juan, Rosa Maria Sarda, Toni Canto. Director: Pedro Almodóvar (1999, R)

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