... Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother on Criterion Blu-ray. All About My Mother. Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother on Criterion Blu-ray. Everything is held close, whether his close-ups are of people or the mysterious world around them. Blu-ray Review: José Ramón Larraz’s Edge of the Axe on Arrow Video. Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone never seem very far offscreen. The Cranes are Flying [Blu-ray] The Cranes are Flying Kansas City [Blu-ray] ... All About My Mother [Blu-ray] Ingmar Bergman's Cinema [Blu-ray] The Cranes are Flying ... All About My Mother [Blu-ray] The Criterion Collection: Blu-ray: 10/8/8: All That Heaven Allows: The Criterion Collection: DVD: ... Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother on Criterion Blu-ray. Criterion's new Blu-ray of All About My Mother utilizes a 2K scan of the original (2.35:1 ‘scope) 35mm negative and the results suggest a brand-new movie. It's much better than last year's winner as a foreign language film, "Life is Beautiful", and is a serious must-see. The original 5.1 surround mix, very good, has been remastered as well, from a 35mm magnetic track. Everything here looks amazing, colors pop, detail is excellent, I could detect no obvious issues. All About My Mother This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. All About My Mother was released in Spain in April 1999, and the following month became Almodóvar’s first movie to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the best director prize (the first of many international awards for the movie, including a foreign-language-film Oscar). “Life Is Extremes” By Raymond Benson The Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film of 1999 was Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), easily one of the now 70-year-old auteur’s most beloved and accomplished works. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Perhaps we should revise: there is no one central mother, but these characters in some way are all surrogate mothers to each other. Just do … Audio is included with a DTS-HD 5.1 track that comes across clear with no issues. All About My Mother Criterion Blu-ray Review “All About My Mother” is among director Pedro Almodóvar’s best.. After a nurse (Manuela) loses her son in a car accident, she travels to Barcelona to find her son’s father (a transgender woman named Lola). Bette Davis isn't offscreen at all: Almodovar's heroines seem to be playing her. Audio is included with a DTS-HD 5.1 track that comes across clear with no issues. Latest Reviews. All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Candela Peña.. Everything here looks amazing, colors pop, detail is excellent, I could detect no obvious issues. FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Buoyed by the Strangeness of Kinship. All About My Mother remains a classic of Spanish cinema and a fervently feminist film. Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph spoil All About My Mother - a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for All About My Mother [Blu-ray] at Amazon.com. All About My Mother movie reviews & Metacritic score: This is the story of a mother (Roth) recovering from the death of her teenage son.