 All About My Mother 1999  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz, Eloy Azorin, Candela Pena, Antonia San Juan, Rosa Maria Sarda, Toni Canto, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Cayetana Guillan Cuervo, Juan Jose Otegui, Carlos Lozano, Fernando Guillen, Manuel Moron, Jose Luis Torrijo
Seventeen-year-old Esteban (Eloy Azorin) has been keeping a journal he calls "All About My Mother." One evening, Esteban and his mother, Manuela (Cecilia Roth), attend a play, and moments after the play's end Esteban is killed by a car while he chases down the star for her autograph. The tragedy sets in motion Manuela's search for Esteban's father. The quest includes entering the worlds of a pregnant nun, lesbians, and transsexuals. But each character gives Manuela a sense of purpose in the healing process following her son's death. An Academy Award was received for Best Foreign Film.
|  | |
Spanish Fly 1998  R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Daphna Kastner
Cast: Daphna Kastner, Martin Donovan, Danny Huston, Antonio Castro, Toni Canto, Felipe Velez, Chantal Rios, Yoima, Pablo Scola, Nieve de Medina
Although troubled with problems of her own concerning her Spanish father, American journalist Zoe (Daphna Kastner) travels to Madrid to write about macho men in Spain. While researching her story, Zoe forms relationships with a number of men. Will one of them be "Mr. Right"?
| | |
| 1. All About My Mother (1999)
2. Spanish Fly (1998)
In The News
|
