Directed by:
Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay:
Pedro AlmodóvarCinematography:
Affonso BeatoComposer:
Alberto IglesiasCast:
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Carmen Balagué, Pedro Almodóvar, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo (more)VOD (1)
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A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, Manuela cried until her eyes ran completely dry. Far from seeing clearly, the present and the future become mixed up in darkness. That same night, while waiting in the hospital, she reads the last lines written by her son in a notebook that he always kept by his side. "This morning I looked through my mother’s bedroom until I found a stack of photographs. All of them were cut in half. My father, I suppose. I have the impression that my life is missing that same half. I want to meet him, I don’t care who he is, or how he treated my mother. No one can take that right away from me." Cecilia Roth as Manuela and Eloy Azorin as EstebanShe never told Esteban who he was, "your father died long before you were born" was all she ever told him. In memory of her son, Manuela leaves Madrid and goes to Barcelona in search of his father. She wants to tell him that their son's last written words were directed to him, even though he never knew his father. But first she has to tell him that, when she abandoned him eighteen years ago, she was pregnant, they had a son, and he has just died. She must also tell him that she named their son Esteban, like his biological father, before he changed his name to Lola. Lola the Pioneer. Manuela goes to Barcelona in search of Lola, her son’s father. The search for a man with that name cannot be simple. And indeed it isn’t. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Cecilia Roth
Argentina
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Marisa Paredes
Spain
Best movies:
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
Antonia San Juan
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Stones (2002)
The Platform (2019)
Penélope Cruz
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Blow (2001)
Live Flesh (1997)
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Peru
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Anna and the Wolves (1973)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Carmen Balagué
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Aquí no hay quien viva (2003) (series)
Morocco: Love in Times of War (2017) (series)
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series) - a.f.
Bad Education (2004)
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Candela Peña
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Take My Eyes (2003)
Princesses (2005)
Eloy Azorín
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Grand Hôtel (2011) (series)
Mad Love (2001)
Fernando Guillén
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
The Dark Night of the Soul (1989)
Fito Páez
Argentina
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
La peli (2007)
Carme Fortuny
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Ready to Wear (1994)
José Luis Torrijo
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Rosa Maria Sardà
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Take My Eyes (2003)
Maktub (2011)
Agustín Almodóvar
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Esther García
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
My Life Without Me (2003)
Juan José Otegui
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
The Flower of My Secret (1995)
High Heels (1991)
Patxi Freytez
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
La caza (2019) (series)
Crime Wave (2018)
Yael Barnatán
Spain
Best movies:
All About My Mother (1999)
Lugares comunes (2002)
Chill Out! (2003)