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SPAIN · 1999
All About My Mother
Synopsis
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Cinema Atlas Connection
This movie made me want to be an actress. Or maybe it made me want to make movies. It made me understand movies as something that could be simultaneously joyful and heartbroken, and that those things didn’t have to cancel each other out.
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Spain · Spanish Cinema Post-Franco
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