Double Feature
All About My Mother
Internationally acclaimed writer/director Pedro Almodóvar delivers his finest film yet, a poignant masterpiece of unconditional love, survival and redemption. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she’s built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken woman learns her son’s final wish was to know his father – the man she abandoned when she was pregnant 18 years earlier. Returning to Barcelona in search of him, Manuela overcomes her grief and becomes caregiver to a colorful extended family: a pregnant nun (Penélope Cruz), a trans sex worker (Antonia San Juan), and two troubled actresses (Marisa Paredes and Candela Peña). With riveting performances, unforgettable characters and creative plot twists, this touching screwball melodrama is “An absolute stunner. A funny, touching and vital film marks a career peak for Almodóvar!” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Writer
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Starring
- Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Rosa María Sardá
- Year
- 1999
- Rated
- R
- Country
- Spain
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 101 minutes
Talk to Her
From Pedro Almodóvar, the director of the Academy-Award(r winning All About My Mother (Best Foreign Language Film, 2000), comes his most acclaimed film yet. Talk to Her is the surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of two couples. Two men (Benigno and Marco) almost meet while watching a dance performance, but their lives are irrevocably entwined by fate. They meet later at a private clinic where Benigno is the caregiver for Alicia, a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma. Marco is there to visit his girlfriend, Lydia, a famous matador, also rendered motionless. As the men wage vigil over the women they love, the story unfolds in flashback and flashforward as the lives of the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward a surprising conclusion. (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Writer
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Starring
- Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Darío Grandinetti, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin
- Year
- 2002
- Rated
- R
- Country
- Spain
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 112 minutes