All About My Mother

Year: 1999

Director: Pedro Almodovar

Actor: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Pena, Antonia San Juan, Penelope Cruz

Language: Spanish

Original title: Todo Sombre Mi Madre

Brief summary: Manuela, a nurse and single mother in her late thirties, must come to terms with the tragic loss of her only son, Esteban, when he is struck by a car. She never told Esteban who his father 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 to search for Esteban’s father. However, the man that she left behind eighteen years earlier when she was pregnant is now a transvestite named Lola…