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All About My Mother (1999)
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"Sometimes I really wish David Bordwell’s blog permitted comments. Mostly it’s better that it doesn’t, but the man’s last post has made me want to discuss the art of movie titles for a whole week now. And it didn’t help that coinciding in time with Bordwell’s post was another one of those sidebars in Entertainment Weekly pointing out some new movies with misleading titles. Yes, Lakeview Terrace does sound like a period romance, as do many other badly titled films (Elizabethtown and Wicker Park come to mind). This weekend also sees two new movies employing the method of borrowing song titles, which are typically not appropriate (Ghost Town seems more like a horror western hybrid, while My Best Friend’s Girl
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"Todo Sobre Mi Madre"
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"RED RED RED ..red hair , transvestite male prostitutes, tragic loss of children Lesbian love, motherly love , and fatherly love , fathers with breasts, Bette Davis reference, Black hair ,Penelope Cruz speaking her own language and seeming like a totally different person, heartbreak, Divas , " A street car named desire" , crying, lots of crying..crying while you watch it..fantastic..!. 9 out of 10...I'm done for now... Chrissie J "
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All about my Mother
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"Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother finds many of its characteristics steeped in classic melodramatic themes. The effects of love and death are felt throughout the film. The entire beginning is a reflection of the entire beginning, if that makes any sense. We see Manuela (Cecilia Roth) through the eyes of Esteban II (Eloy Azorin). His perception of her is one that is very high, and his only real regret in life is that he does not know his father. That’s an all together different heartbreaking moment. We also get hints as to Manuela’s acting career, and her career as a nurse. Almodovar almost mocks us by having her act in a scene that she will later experience in her own life.
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Love without boundries
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"I like Almodovar. A lot.I was in Spain while his latest, Volver, was realeased and there was a general air of excitement surrounding the acclaimed director.Todo Sobre Mi Madre is a film about relationships and what we do with those relationships. We pick our family. We choose our friends, our lovers, our paths. Almodovar attempts to explore the difficulties of a modern conception of what a family means, in terms of parenting and also stepping in to take care of others. One of the things that I enjoy is his ability to explore the multple facets of characters. Concurrently working backwards in time and forward with the plot, the viewer comes to understand everything about a woman who sacrificed for her son, and the entwined pathways that lead her to the present. This film is not for the faint of heart, nor is it something to just pop in the VCR on a fun friday night with friends. It challenges your beliefs on homosexuality, drugs and family. Almodovar is very cynical about the Cath ... "
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