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Pedro Almodóvar (1951- )
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About My Mother by Pedro Almodovar
A sweet, funny, big-hearted valentine of a film,
dedicated to "actresses who have played actresses,"
Almodóvar's Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Film) melodrama
at once recalls the best of those '50s Douglas Sirk movies while
at the same time examining -- in quintessential Almodóvar style
-- lives of the disenfranchised. Roth is wondrous as a mother who,
mourning the death of her teenaged son, journeys back to a
forgotten past and searches for the boy's father -- now a
transvestite prostitute.
DVD is letterboxed to 2.35 (enhanced for 16x9) with a pan &
scan option. It has Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, in Spanish only, with
English, Spanish or French subtitles. An interview with Almodóvar
is also included, along with an isolated music score, a making-of
featurette, production info, cast and crew info, and the trailer.
"An absolute stunner!" Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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Almodóvar, Pedro (1951- )
Almodóvar was born in the La Mancha
region of Spain, a conservative place he left in the late 1960s
for creative pursuits in Madrid. During this time, he worked for
the national phone company to support himself, wrote a the
autobiography of a fictitious porn star "Patty Diphusa,"
acted with an avant-garde theater company and started a
cross-dressing punk band.
His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom
showcased the kink, camp and dark humor he would become known for
throughout his career. Almodóvar does not consider himself a
"gay" filmmaker, but describes his sexuality as fluid
and free to change. His films reflect this description, featuring
men and women of disparate sexual orientations falling in love.
One of Spain's most successful directors of all time, he has used
dark topics such as murder, rape and incest to satirize Spanish
popular culture and bourgeois respectability.
Almodóvar's films include: Labyrinth of
Passion, Matador,
Law of Desire and
Live Flesh. He has
received several honors including the Academy Award for best
foreign language film for 1999's All About My Mother.
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