Behind the Scenes of, All about My Mother (Pedro Almodovar) EuroArts Music International

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

EuroArts Music International GmbH

Series:

A Film and Its Era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Mass media--Study and teaching.

Mass media.

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 19 sec)) sound

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2018

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : EuroArts Music International, [2012]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

Manuela, a single mother, accidentally loses her 17-year-old son and starts searching for the father of the child. The latter lives as a transvestite prostitute in Barcelona. The film offers a gallery of women's portraits-nurses, actresses, transvestite prostitutes, nuns-facing by themselves life and its attendant tragedies: the death of a son, drugs, AIDS. However there is no major male part in this film in which the world seems to belong to the women who are facing men that are missing, are inconsistent, or have bluntly decided to change their gender. All about My Mother takes place in the new Spain of the '90s: the sexual liberation and cultural explosion that transformed within two decades the oldest European dictatorship into an ultramodern country in which, after the "movida" years in Madrid, Barcelona has become the coolest city in Europe. But it also has its dark side: the fashionable metropolis is the capital of drugs, prostitution, and AIDS. The film embraces transgender theories and offers in its filigree a new design of the family: one no longer based on genetic links, but on elective affinities. A master of bad taste and of the mixing of genres as well as a big fan of melodramas and intricate plots, Pedro Almodovar films according to a particular aesthetic: multicultural, neo-baroque, both popular and avant-garde, kitsch, and intellectual

Contents:

"All About My Mother": Car Accident (4:20); Death of a Child (3:42); Imagining Women (3:52); Almodovar: Background (3:45); Sister Rosa's Character (5:23); Lola's Character (2:18); Almodovar: Filmmaking (3:30); Transsexuals and Transgender (2:05); Barcelona, Spain (5:20); Sexual Revolution (2:44); Pre-Production (3:58); Melodrama and Humor (4:41); Film Ending and Success (5:37); Credits: All about My Mother (Pedro Almodovar) (0:33);

Notes:

Originally released by EuroArts Music International, 2012

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 24, 2018

Title from distributor's description

Publisher Number:

162968 Infobase

[162957]s Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license