Saturday, June 10, 2006

All About My Mother (Spain)

Pedro Almodovar, 1999, 97 minutes, UK: 15

A mother, her son, an autograph, an actress: an accident...

Thus begins an Almodovar masterpiece; unravelling a delicate web of friendship between a single mother, a transexual man, and a pregnant nun!

Arrive around 8:30pm for 9:00pm start.

As always, Almodovar's lense follows people with proclivities and professions that lie just beyond the pale of social respectability. Correcting distortions of unaided vision, it reveals people: sometimes crazy, sometimes sensible, sometimes likable, sometimes not -- But always human, in a way we had not thought.