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Filmmaker Focus: All About My Mother by Almodóvar

Part of every woman is a mother/actress/saint/sinner. And part of every man is a woman.

Pedro Almodóvar

In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) 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 (Penélope Cruz); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan). This SHOUT program is sponsored by Birmingham AIDS Outreach.

Credits

Director(s):

Pedro Almodóvar

Co-Producers(s):

Claude Berri

Cast:

Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa María Sardà

Composer(s):

Alberto Iglesias