Where to watch All About My Mother (1999)

Trivia & production notes

• Pedro Almodóvar based the central accident scene on a moment from John Cassavetes' 1977 film Opening Night.
• The film's poster was designed by Madrid illustrator Óscar Mariné and deliberately uses red, white, and blue with black accents and a touch of yellow to convey beauty, simplicity, and femininity.
• Most of the filming took place on location in Barcelona.
• Almodóvar dedicated the film to actresses, women, men who become women through performance, aspiring mothers, and his own mother.
• The film premiered in Spain on April 8, 1999, followed by general theatrical release eight days later on April 16.
• Janet Maslin of The New York Times hailed it as Almodóvar's best film, comparing his approach to both George Cukor and Douglas Sirk.
• Roger Ebert noted the film's tension between being taken seriously on its own terms versus appreciated as a colorful homage to Tennessee Williams and All About Eve, ultimately praising how Almodóvar gave his characters emotional weight and reality.
• Wesley Morris observed the film layers references to All About Eve, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca, and Alfred Hitchcock while adding a spiritual depth absent from Almodóvar's earlier work like Law of Desire and Kika.
• Almodóvar won the Best Director award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
• The film earned approximately 60 million dollars worldwide at the box office, with Spain accounting for nearly 13 million of that total.

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