TODO SOBRE MI MADRE

All about my Mother

España. 1999. Color. 101 min. Ficción. .
  • Film Director: Pedro Almodóvar.
  • Producer: Agustín Almodovar.
The night that a car knocked down her son Esteban, Manuela wept until remain dry. In tribute to her son, Manuela leaves Madrid and goes to Barcelona looking for his father. She wants to tell him that the last words that her son wrote were torwards him, even if he didn't know him. But before, she has to tell the father that when she abandoned him 18 years ago she was pregnant, and that they had a kid, and that this kid is dead. She will tell him also that she gave him the name of Esteban, like him, his biological father, before he swapted to Lola, the Pioneer. Manuela goes to Barcelona looking for Lola, the father of her son. The research of a man with that name can't be easy. Indeed, it is not.

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (* Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, September 25, 1949) is a Spanish film director, scriptwriter and producer, that has obtained a major acclaim and resonance outside Spain in the last decades since the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. He has received major international film awards, including two Academy Awards in various categories and several Goya Awards.