When tragedy strikes and Manuela’s (Cecilia Roth) only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. Learning that her son’s final wish was to know his father — whom she abandoned when she was pregnant 18 years earlier — Manuela returns to Barcelona in search of him, overcoming her grief and becoming the caregiver to a colorful family: a pregnant nun (Penélope Cruz), a transgender prostitute (Antonia San Juan), and two troubled actresses (Marisa Paredes and Candela Peña).
Included on the BBC’s list of the 100 greatest foreign-language films and the BFI’s countdown of the best ’90s films, All About My Mother won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1999 and was selected as Pedro Almodóvar’s second-best movie in IndieWire’s 2022 ranking of his work. For a more in-depth appreciation, check out Rebecca Bodenheimer’s 2019 ode to the film on its 20th anniversary.
See All About My Mother this Thursday at IU Cinema!
“A surprisingly satisfying combination of bawdy sexual humor, genuine emotion, and a plot with mechanics so excessive that Almodóvar himself calls it ‘a screwball drama.'” — Los Angeles Times
All About My Mother/Todo sobre mi madre will be playing at IU Cinema on June 27 at 7pm as part of the I Love the ’90s series.