All About My Mother

All About My Mother

All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 Pedro Almod�var film about a nurse named Manuela who works in Madrid and lives with her son Esteban, who is seventeen, never knew his father, and wants to be an actor.

The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, sexual identity, religion, faith, and existentialism; the characters are presented in a straightforward and mostly unromanticized and non-judgemental fashion but with an edge of dark humour. The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000.

The title is a play on the film title All About Eve, of which Esteban is a fan, he complains that the translation of the title into Spanish is a poor one, and should have been "Todo sobre Eva."

One night after watching a play of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Esteban is running after an actress to get an autograph when he is hit by a car and dies. Manuela sees the accident and leaves Madrid to visit her son's father, Lola, who is now a transvestite in Barcelona. While in Barcelona, Manuela befriends another transvestite (named Agrado), a nun, and the actress that his son admired.