DVD

All about my mother / El Deseo S.A. presenta una coproducción El Deseo S.A., Renn Productions, France 2 Cinema, con la participación de Via Digital ; un film de Almodóvar ; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar.

Almodóvar, Pedro, (film director,, screenwriter.). Paredes, Marisa, 1946- (actor.). Cruz, Penélope, (actor.). Roth, Cecilia, 1958- (actor.). Wilson, Emma, 1967- (essayist.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan. (Cast).

Summary:

In an instant, nurse Manuela loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681436838
ISBN: 1681436833
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12).
Edition: Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publisher: [Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) Special features: making-of documentary from 2012 (52 min.) featuring interviews with cast and crew ; 1999 television program featuring the director, his mother, cast and crew ; 2019 post-screening Q&A from Madrid (48 min.) ; essay by scholar Emma Wilson.
Participant or Performer Note:	Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: R.
System Details Note:	DVD; Widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; 5.1 surround.
Language Note:	Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.
Source of Description Note:	Title from disc surface.