All About My Mother DVD Criterion ” —Roger Ebert

” —Roger Ebert

sharp dialogue and unexpected turns

a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous

A masterpiece of suspense filmmaking presented in a gorgeous restoration

imaginative modern cinema

All About My Mother DVD Criterion ” —Roger Ebert'All About My Mother' Director: Pedro Almodvar (1999) Spanish w English subtitles Stylistically evoking classic Hollywood melodrama Almodvar tells the story of a mother who when she tragically loses her teenage son sets out for Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the son he never knew he had. There she forms bonds with three women, different to herself and each other, and finds some purpose again.