As the title suggest, it is All About My Mother in Spanish. Ordered the vcd at Yahoo! Auctions and after $6.50 on tues, i've received the vcd, but surprisingly, it was a self-burnt disc. (Feel a bit cheated, in the sense that it was not stated that it was a self-burnt disc.) Well anyway, self-burnt is always better than none, cos i am almost turning the whole S'pore upside down and search thru all Poh Kim's outlet to get the disc. And the results? No longer available.
Directed by the controverisal director Pedro Almodovar who was famous for homos and trans in his film, the melodrama (should i called it melo-drama or an award winning Spanish drama?) stars Cecilia Roth and Penelope Cruz, and unsurprisingly, few trans actress. Cecilia plays Manuela, who went to the theatre with her son, Estaban, watching a drama play to celebrate his birthday. While chasing an actress for her autograph, Estaban was run down by a car and unfortunately, died on his 17th birthday under the heavy rain. To fufill her son's last birthday wish, Manuela sets on a journey to look for her ex-husband aka Estaban's father. She met Agarado, her bestfriend who is now a transsexual prostitute on the way, and went to the church that helps homos and trans. They befriends Sister Rosa, a nun who wants to help the poors in the 3rd world country, but later to discover that she was pregnant and an HIV+. At the theatre, she finally met her old colleague, Huma, whom Estaban admires. Manuela takes the job of becoming her assistant, from handling all trival matters to helping and comforting Nina, an actress who was Huma's lover.
Seems like i need to go and print out the cover myself, but anyway, one good thing about this was i am given the original uncut, uncensored version. But sad to say, i had not started on disc 2. So, i can only judge myself for the movie after finishing the whole lot of it. Haha, hope that i could get hold to more films from Almodovar in future.