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	Epinions.com - All About MY Mother - Granniemose's 80th BB W/O
		My father was a loner, and the leap from his small fishing village in Italy to New York only magnified his antisocial tendencies, opting not to find new friends or connections, and choosing instead to wallow in his disdain for Americans.
		My parents may have been bound by marriage, but to this day I still know nothing of their courtship, nor was I ever remotely privy to the reason why these two people ever came together.
		Reared by her aunts, my mother was a child living in post-war Italy; her station in life, being a girl, was not met with the same enthusiasm or expectation had she been born a boy.
	www.epinions.com /content_2904858756 (1486 words)

	All About My Mother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All About My Mother is the story of a young mother whose son is run over by a car while attempting to attain the autograph of one of his favorite actresses.
		Even the mother, whose son was killed by the very woman she was employed by, does not harbor any resentment or unkind feelings towards the actress, knowing that inside her own experience, driving away from fans was a common practice.
		The mother of the nun is frowned upon because she is nasty towards her child and grandchild.
	www.oberlin.edu /student/tjones/wt-site/allaboutmymother.html (479 words)

	All About My Mother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 film written and directed by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar.
		All About My Mother is the story of Manuela, a single mother in Madrid.
		When Rosa's mother comes over, Rosa asks her not to make the situation any harder than it already is. Mrs Sanz agrees that it is best for Rosa to stay at Manuela's apartment, and asks just to be kept up to date on her daughter's condition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/All_About_My_Mother (1931 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "All About My Mother" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In "All About My Mother," a 38-year-old woman (Cecilia Roth) watches as her teenage son is hit by a car; when she runs to him and crouches over him in the rain, we see her sideways, tilted and blurry, from his fading point of view.
		She'd told Esteban nothing about his father, but when she reads the last lines of her son's journal ("I want to meet him, I don't care who he is, or how he treated my mother.
		She's the heart of the movie, the one you worry most about, the one who always seems the strongest and most capable but whose fragility, given her recent experience, is always painfully apparent.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/11/19/mother/index.html (1519 words)

	Teresa Strasser --All About My Mother
		That is the way it goes between my mother and me. She cultivates a low-level depression and I see it as my lifelong duty to cheer her up, to do whatever might make her happy.
		I was also buying into the fantasy that my mother would morph into the soccer mom of my dreams: chirpy, polite, listening intently to stories of my life and offering a stream of positive axioms.
		I tried to talk to her about my hopes and fears, she commented on a road sign, switched the radio to a news station and looked out the window.
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/tstrasser.3.3.0.htm (882 words)

	Viva Pedro: All About My Mother \| Reverse Shot
		To my mother.” And there, in a nutshell, you have it: in its closing moments, Almodovar announces (though he’s made it clear long before) that All About My Mother is a film about acting, about women, about acting like a woman, about drag, about mothers, about acting like a mother.
		Mother is far from an academic exercise; rather, it’s stunning and sprawling, a film that captures the giddy spirit of fun that defined much of Almodovar’s early work while cementing a turn towards something more ambitious and meaningful.
		With All About My Mother, the Almodovar project, such as it is, achieves a near-perfect visual and thematic unity; it is the pinnacle of an exceptional career.
	www.reverseshot.com /article/pedro_all_about_mother (799 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - All About My Mother (1999)
		Instead, All About My Mother is bold and lively filmmaking, which plumbs jewels from cinema’s past and builds on them to resonate in new directions.
		Though All About My Mother, in the course of its story, takes us through familiar conventions like the death of a loved one and the birth of a new baby, it manages to feel new.
		When the curtain closes on All About My Mother, Manuela has crafted herself into a mother once again, a part she was born to play.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/a/allaboutmymother.htm (925 words)

	Texas Monthly February 2003: All About My Mother
		But the boys she met at the dances in the city were always surprised to learn that she had been raised on a ranch, because she wore the most fashionably daring clothes and liked to converse and go to the movies.
		Only in recent years has she begun talking to my two sisters and me about herself—not about who she is in relation to anybody else, but about who she is, plain and simple.
		She still cries when she remembers how—three days into the trip and not far from the city where my father and five-year-old sister, Cristina, were waiting to meet her—the bus stopped for a two-hour layover in Oakland and she walked around aimlessly on swollen feet under miserable skyscrapers.
	www.texasmonthly.com /2003-02-01/feature5.php (1269 words)

	All About My Mother: Cinephiles Movie Review
		All About My Mother tells the story of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), whose teenage son Esteban (Eloy Azorin) insists on learning about his absent father.
		As an undercurrent that invisibly propels the plot, Manuela's search for Esteban's father, "Lola", becomes mostly representative of the masculine figure as a force that fades or dies, and of the liberating effects of the solidarity between the women.
		All About My Mother's visual and narrative representations of these issues are honest, unrestrained and entertaining.
	www.cinephiles.net /All_About_My_Mother/Film-Synopsis.html (299 words)

	Beijing or Bust: All About My Mother
		About ten days ago I had a big argument with my mother.
		But for my generation and those before us, we grew up indoctrinated with the notion that China is our dear motherland, and it’s our duty to repay her love and make her, having long suffered, proud.
		My mother, despite her great difficulty dealing with me being whom I am, still loves me and always worries about me. I came from her and I once ran away from her smothering love.
	beijingorbust.blogspot.com /2006/02/all-about-my-mother.html (1294 words)

	All About My Mother (1999): Reviews
		This is the story of a mother (Roth) recovering from the death of her teenage son.
		Just about everyone worth knowing in All About My Mother is female in spirit, which is to say they're all sexy, impossible, powerfully durable souls, quarrelsome and loyal, inventive at navigating the tragedies.
		Mothers definitely get their due here: Birth mothers, adoptive mothers and mothers-to-be - with the only men in sight (save for one young fatality and one old eccentric) being those who wear flashy makeup and sport breasts
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/allaboutmymother (960 words)

	All About My Mother
		All About My Mother is Pedro Almodovar's ode to women everywhere.
		All About My Mother is full of strong women characters played by great Spanish actresses (most of them unknown to American audiences), and references to other works with strong women characters like A Streetcar Named Desire and All About Eve.
		All About My Mother is light years ahead of the many wannabe 'chick flicks' that open every once in a while here.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/all_about_my_mother.html (500 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER review
		Manuela has had to cope with the loss of her son and a failed romantic relationship while Rosa is a nun who pays for her reckless disregard of her welfare, and Agrado is a "female" prostitute.
		I am not saying that ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER is a bad movie, but the characters did not interest me very much, and writer/director Almodovar's attempt at realism did not quite succeed due to strained sensational elements.
		I think this is incorrect terminology, because I checked a few minutes of the 1.66:1 version, and the framing appears to have about the same height as the 2.35:1 version, but much picture area on the sides is missing, indicating that the 1.66:1 version is actually pan and scan.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/allaboutmymother.htm (753 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "All About My Mother" review (1999)
		In one of Almodovar's delicious twists of irony, as the movie begins Manuela is an organ transplant nurse, who is soon faced with the difficult decision to allow her son's body to be used for spare parts.
		As with all Almodovar movies, "All About My Mother" is as colorful (both literally and metaphorically) and whimsical as it is melancholy and vicarious.
		While I was watching "All About My Mother," it seemed to be merely a good movie, blessed by strong performances and Almodovar's delectable quirkiness and bold photography.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/allaboutmom.html (372 words)

	Re:mote Induction: All About My Mother
		All About My Mother is the latest film from Pedro Almodovar who's previous films all seem to have met with critical acclaim and numerous awards.
		All About My Mother illustrates the strong bond that can so easily develop between women and the strength that can be drawn from the support.
		All About My Mother is an enjoyable film with likeable characters and a storyline that intersects the most unexpected situations.
	members.tripod.com /~rem_ind/visual/mymum.htm (368 words)

	Review: All About My Mother (Todo Sobre mi Madre)
		All About My Mother is the third consecutive movie in which Almodovar has applied this moderated style, proving even to doubters that the filmmaker has matured.
		As the title implies, All About My Mother is about mothers and their relationships with their natural or surrogate children.
		During the course of All About My Mother, Manuela is a mother three times over - first to her biological child, Esteban, then to Rosa, whom she takes into her home, and finally to a baby who comes into her custody.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/a/all_about.html (1085 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: All About My Mother [1999]: DVD: Penelope Cruz,Cecilia Roth,Marisa Paredes,Candela Pena,Rosa Maria ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However,All About My Mother approaches its twists and turns with a broader emotional scope than most of Almodóvar's work; even the more extravagant aspects of the story are presented quietly, to allow the sadness of life to be as present as the irrepressible vitality of the characters.
		The death by accident of a mother's much loved son compels her to go to Barcelona and inform the father, who doesn't even know of the boy's existence.
		It says something about the power of his film-making when mariginal societal characters such as these make us feel a greater affection and empathy for them than we do for the majority of mid-west suburbanite families that are portrayed on screen.
	www.amazon.co.uk /All-About-Mother-Penelope-Cruz/dp/B00004RCPR (1434 words)

	PopcornQ Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(1990) was a callous comedy about a fan who kidnaps his beautiful idol, tethers her to his bed and hovers over her when she urinates in the toilet.
		As for High Heels (1991) and The Flower of My Secret, they were at best forgettable features, each hosting only two or three of the amusing touches of the ridiculous that we always expect from Pedro.
		And now arrives All About My Mother, a marvelously impassioned and caring journey into what it means to be a woman today (having once had a penis won't exclude you) and what it means to be a family.
	planetout.com /popcornq/db/getfilm.html?22556 (559 words)

	All About My Mother
		His last film, The Flower of My Secret, was an exploration into the mind of a woman confused on how to make an honest life while not betraying the most important people in her life.
		Almodavar has always been fascinated by the female psyche and All About My Mother is truly a homage to the woman as actress, mother, wife, daughter, and friend.
		Almodavar has not only made a film about his love and admiration for women, but also for the process of birth and rebirth, the ability to forgive and forget, and the transformation from a guise to the real person underneath.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Allabout/Allabout.html (1166 words)

	JoyOfMovies.com: Movie Review of All About My Mother
		"All About My Mother" starts with the eponymous mother, Manuela (Ceclia Roth), working as an actress in medical training videos portraying a distraught mother trying to decide whether or not to donate her dead son's organs.
		Almodovar is trying to make a point about the family structure in "All About My Mother": a person's family is more than just who her blood relatives are.
		In "All About My Mother," he forces the audience to love his characters through cloying candor, which leaves "All About My Mother" as little better than the secular equivalent of most Christian filmmaking: preachy, obvious, and designed to make its core audience pleased with itself.
	www.seattlecat.com /joyofmovies/columns/000226.html (568 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "All About My Mother" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Forget about the silly interview and skimpy featurette; the best reason to see this outrageous DVD is the film itself.
		The notes Almodóvar hits in "All About My Mother" are deeper and more resonant than in his earlier films and yet the plot fully indulges his outrageously soapy side.
		The movie isn't as much about women on the verge of a nervous breakdown as it is about women past that point discovering their own power to persevere.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/dvd/review/2000/12/11/mother/index.html (630 words)

	Todo sobre mi madre (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Todo sobre mi madre / All about my mother starts very well with an introduction of Manuela Coleman (refers to La flor de mi secreto, another Almodóvar-movie) and her son Esteban.
		Esteban documents his mother's life as a writer, hence the title of the movie.
		His heart is transplanted to another person, his mother as a hospital worker is able to track that person down.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0185125 (638 words)

	Mother's Day Crafts - EnchantedLearning.com
		Pages include: my mother's portrait, my mother likes to__, my mother is __ years old, my mother's favorite food, my mother's favorite sport, my mother's favorite color, my mother's name is__, I love it when my mother__, my mother is___.
		Draw a picture of your mother and answer a few simple questions about her.
		Write your mother's name and draw a picture of your mother in the center oval.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /crafts/mothersday (671 words)

	All About My Mother
		All About My Mother is in many ways his most accessible film.
		She returns to her roots and another life, tracks down an actress that has affected her life, practically adopts a pregnant nun, and rekindles her friendship with a transsexual streetwalker.
		All About My Mother has been made into an outstanding DVD, the rich textures of the film elements transfering beautifully to video.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/all_about_my_mother.htm (635 words)

	'All About My Mother': Color, camp and chaos capped with compassion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So it's lovely to note that "All About My Mother" is as dark as a Greek tragedy yet it has a vibrance and joie de vivre that can't be contained by grief.
		Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is a nurse and single mother who is raising her son, Esteban (Elor Azorin), a bright, curious teenager who wants to be a writer.
		Esteban has asked his mother for only two things on this special day: to finally tell him about his father and to wait with him by the stage door in the pouring rain so he may ask Rojo for her autograph.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/momq.shtml (638 words)

	DVD Review - All About My Mother
		Manuela (Cecilia Roth, in an incredible performance) is a dedicated and loving mother to her son.
		At seventeen, her son knows nothing about his father and doesn't often ask his mother to talk about it.
		The featurette is very brief, running only three minutes in length, but it's nice to get some feedback from the stars about the their experiences with the film and the director.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/allaboutmymother.html (994 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: FRONTPAGE (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Pentimento Paradigm is when what we know about a filmmaker or actor seeps into our perception of his film work.
		Once again, responsibility for the large-scale failure does not lie with the valiant and hard-working operatives in the field (or the actors on the screen), but with the mismanagement of the director himself.
		My wife Chaz and I thank you for all of your support, prayers, and kind thoughts.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage (448 words)

	Amazon.com: All About My Mother: DVD: Eloy Azorín,Carmen Balagué (II),Yael Barnatán,Toni Cantó,Penélope ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, All About My Mother approaches its twists and turns with a broader emotional scope than most of Almodóvar's work; even the more extravagant aspects of the story are presented quietly, to allow the sadness of life to be as present as the irrepressible vitality of the characters.
		My first experience with All About My Mother was during my Thanksgiving vacation to NYC.
		It is a complicated film about complicated women, trying to capture, I think, the dynamics of women in general.
	www.amazon.com /All-About-Mother-Eloy-Azor%C3%ADn/dp/0767847105 (1650 words)

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