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All About My Mother
directed by Pedro Almodovar
After a tragic accident, Manuela goes back to Barcelona to look for someone from her past. While she's there, she reconnects with old friends and makes some new ones - well that's just a very succinct summary of the story without wanting to give too much away.
What I love is the passion that infuses all Almodovar films and this includes the characters, the storyline and the performances he gets from his actors. Circumstances are stripped bare, you don't need to know screeds of back story, these are sparkling characters that are living in this film at this time. His women are real (even when they're men!), gutsy and determined. Look at the great actresses here - Marisa Paredes and Cecilia Roth, and look at the young Penelope Cruz, she doesn't need all that Hollywood gloss to make her beautiful. Even when some unbearably sad things happen in his films, you still come home feeling the resoluteness of the human spirit.
Reading back, this sounds a bit flowery, but these films are emotional!
Y'now this film was one that I kept on putting off seeing. I was very close to my mum who died coming up 12 years ago now, and a film about mothers always just about does me in, but having rejoined LoveFilm I put this one on my list and it was the second one they sent. So now I'm happy I've seen it at last
4/5
All About My Mother
directed by Pedro Almodovar
After a tragic accident, Manuela goes back to Barcelona to look for someone from her past. While she's there, she reconnects with old friends and makes some new ones - well that's just a very succinct summary of the story without wanting to give too much away.
What I love is the passion that infuses all Almodovar films and this includes the characters, the storyline and the performances he gets from his actors. Circumstances are stripped bare, you don't need to know screeds of back story, these are sparkling characters that are living in this film at this time. His women are real (even when they're men!), gutsy and determined. Look at the great actresses here - Marisa Paredes and Cecilia Roth, and look at the young Penelope Cruz, she doesn't need all that Hollywood gloss to make her beautiful. Even when some unbearably sad things happen in his films, you still come home feeling the resoluteness of the human spirit.
Reading back, this sounds a bit flowery, but these films are emotional!
Y'now this film was one that I kept on putting off seeing. I was very close to my mum who died coming up 12 years ago now, and a film about mothers always just about does me in, but having rejoined LoveFilm I put this one on my list and it was the second one they sent. So now I'm happy I've seen it at last
4/5