Sunday SchmoozeHosted by Fred Craden
Pedro Almodóvar’s ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
Sunday, April 23rd
Bagels at 10 AM | Film at 11 AM
This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. 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). Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion. (Spain, 1999, 101min., In Spanish & Catalan with English subtitles, R | Dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Event Venue
Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington, United States
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