June 23, 2024 • 12 mins
"Todo Sobre Mi Madre" is one of Pedro Almovodvar's great films especially of the 90s. It's a complex drama surrounding a mother dealing with her only son's death and actually doing something about it. She goes into a spiral of events that eventually answers deeper questions of her past lives. It's almost that thing where you can't lead into the future unless you can let go of the past. A great film because it's full of laughs and legitimate drama. Thw riting is excellent because gets sucked in and the cast that highlights it makes you wonder why they haven't been on the big screen. You can see greatness even from the small, local stage.
Four out of four tokes.
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Four out of four tokes.
#allaboutmymother #pedroalmodovar #filmreview
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(00:01):
Good Morning, and this is MorningReal, a host by Ray Salazar.
If I see it, I reviewit. This is a three or four
to two hundred mentor so podcast.The films that I review of all kinds
of languages, all kinds of colors, all kinds of nations, whatever subject
I review it. Today, I'mgonna talk about All About My Mother.
(00:23):
It's a Spanish film written and directedby Pedron Magoar. He's a legend in
modern filmmaking, especially coming out ofSpain, always creating films that are very
not it's it's supposed to insinuate melodrama, right, and normally when it comes
to melodrama, it's exaggerated. Hekind of likes to toil around the notion
(00:49):
of melodrama, Like I feel likehe likes to push it's it's not it's
not that he pushes his limits.He sort of gets close to it and
then comes back, but he doesn'tgo to the edge. You know,
he goes back and forth with themelodrama. And all of his stories are
not the same, you know,they're different, different. A lot of
it is, you know, areoccurring cast, especially with Antonio banderas Penelope
(01:14):
Cruz and whatnot. But whether hehas a reoccurring cast or not, every
film's different. It's always a differentsituation. Sometimes it will revolve around women,
revolve around men, both men andwomen, you know, mixed together
or singular. This guy, heknows how to He's a good writer,
he's a good director. He knowshow to paint a picture. You know,
(01:38):
he loves the color red. Anyways, I'm taking too much out of
Pedro and not about the film.In Spanish, this film is called dodos
so mi madre. This film cameout in nineteen ninety nine. It's a
comedy drama. Let me go tothe freaking credits, real quick Reindirected by
Pedro, produced by Augustine Amodova.I think it is bro starring Cecilia Roth,
(02:02):
Marisa Paredes, Gondela, Pena,Ania San Juan, Penelope Cruz Rossa,
Maria Sarda da Fernando, Fernando Gomez, Fernando Guillen, Tony Canto,
ELOI Assurin and Carlos Lossano. Yes, a lot of Spanish name cinematography Alfonso
(02:25):
Biro, edited by Jose Salcedo,music by Alberto Iglesias Production Companies and thenso
Renproductions France to cinema and via digital. Yeah. Man, it is an
all ass film, but it's reallygood. It's one of his, you
know, great films because it's it'sa complex film. It's about this mom
(02:49):
and son. Right, they goto this theater play. The son wants
to see this play, man like, he's kind of obsessed with the with
the play because he's into player.He wants he wants to be a playwright.
That's his thing, you know,that's his thing to get out of
his own self. Right. Momtakes him on his birthday, dude,
(03:10):
and he loves to play so muchthat after the play it's raining, pouring,
and he wants an autograph from thecast, right, especially from the
the main chick and the director ofthe film, I mean, the director
of the play. So they waitin the ring for like a while,
right, and the mom's like,man like, I don't think she's gonna
(03:34):
show, and the Sun's like,well, let's just wait, and next
thing, you know, taxi pullsup and boom, you see the main
actress of that play, and hekind of rushes off to her and tries
to get an autograph. But it'slike that woman, you know wasn't really
having it at that moment, andit broke his heart. And as the
(03:55):
taxi drives away, he chases afterher, and then a tragedy happens.
I won't say what happens. Tragedyhappens. The mom is in shambles.
She lost her son on his birthday, and obviously she's having a hard time
to move on. And next thing, you know, just flees from the
(04:17):
city, just kind of moves andthen she gets into some stuff, man
like stuff that you wouldn't expect awoman like that to happen. And as
the movie goes on, it's likean onion peel. You just get to
see the layers and layers of howdeep this story goes, especially with this
woman's life who lost her only son. Right, well, there's a lot
(04:39):
more to it, right, So, she lost her son and she doesn't
really know how to move on,so she kind of helps somebody out along
the way, right, somebody sheknew from her past life. And in
her past life, she used tobe a prostitute, you know, like
a prostitute. But not only that, she also was an actress in a
(05:00):
play as well, So she hashistory of like acting and all that stuff,
and it's stuff that like she's neverdone since right, and along the
way she decides, you know what, like I'm gonna check out this play
and I'm gonna like confront this womanwho you know, who wouldn't sign my
son's autograph, you know, especiallywaiting out in the rain, and they
(05:23):
get to know each other. Andthen things happened after that too, you
know. It's it's a really goodfilm about basically like a character study almost,
and that's what plays art in asense, you know, character studies,
you know, and things happen.I won't say what, but it's
dramatic. People get pregnant, somepeople get aids. There's a lot of
(05:44):
a mixture of cultures within itself,right, especially like al Molovar, he's
known to be pushing boundaries. Ishe pushes a lot of gender in there
in the films. Right. Helikes to like put you know, trans
into his films. Right. Idon't know the proper way to say it,
but he likes to put that there. And it's not like he's exploiting
(06:05):
these folks. Right in Spain,that's part of its culture. You know,
there's a lot of there's a youknow, a trans culture there,
you know, and I think forI don't know, the virus, he
obviously he wants to kind of putit out there because when it comes to
like theater and all that stuff,like it's like anything goes, you know,
(06:28):
like anybody could be anybody. Youcan play whoever you want and however
you want. It's the medium whereyou can like be yourself in a sense
by acting as somebody else. Becausethere's some folks out there who, you
know, they're not really themselves untilthey're like performing on stage or acting in
a film stuff like that, orplaying sports, you know, like ma'am
(06:53):
beat this guy's ass and bowling.But here I am at home just like
a you know, regular person,and these people bring themselves up. And
I like how this film brings peopleup, you know, through bad situations.
And these are situations that you wouldn'twish want to happen to yourself,
and here they are in front ofyour eyes, and all you can do
(07:13):
is just kind of watch and seewhere it goes. You know. Al
Mondolare is a very good storyteller.He really keeps you on your seat.
It's not like, oh my god, I mean, there's a couple of
moments where it's like, oh mygod. Because of the melodrama, you
get to discover things like this happenedto this person? Who's the father?
Oh yeah? Also like in thefilm, like as I was watching it,
I'm like, that got a show? Is dad? Right? I
(07:36):
mean I've seen this film, butit's like, who is the father?
What happened to the father? Becausehe is mentioned. He's almost a driving
force in this film, especially forthe main character of this film, right
as she moves to another city,you know, trying to like not deal
with her grief. I mean,that's one way of her dealing with it,
(07:56):
but it's it's crazy of the expertsthat she needed to go through to
kind of like kind of figure herlife out, herself, out her son's
life, because I mean, shewas really close to her son. But
at the same time, there areobviously there are things that she didn't really
know about, you know. Onething. One thing was that this son
(08:18):
was like kind of wondering about hisdad, and there's so many questions he
needed to be answered, and it'sunfortunate that he couldn't get those answers.
But we the audience get the answers. And that's what makes the film kind
of pretty tragic in a sense.You know, it's a it's a it's
a comedy, right, It's it'slike it's a comedy, but at the
(08:39):
same time, like in that layerof hilariousness and that layer of comedy,
there's strong themes in this film.There's there's a lot of anguish, a
lot of you know, actual drama, drama that we can probably relate to
despite of who's in the film,right, and and honestly that makes it
(09:01):
for a good film. I don'tI really have no problems with this film
watching it, especially watching it afterlike the third time in my life,
you know, I really enjoyed it. It's it's a film about love,
man, and the love of lovingyour parents in a sense and loving life
at the same time, because man, parents can either make us or break
(09:22):
us to a point where, like, you know, there's not anybody out
there who could sort of get usback on track to reality, to the
reality of things in life in ourlives. I like how Almodovar made a
story that revolves around that type ofsubject. You know, I would give
(09:43):
this film a complete four out offour tokes. I can't give it a
three or a three and a half. It's a four. It's I'm not
saying it's the perfect film or theperfect Spanish film. It's a really good
film and a lot of the forceseven by women, right. But at
the same time, there are likekey characters who are men in the film
(10:05):
that I found really intrigued by.You know, there's a character in the
film where it's obviously a dude,but you know, he became a woman,
and he's totally he totally owns it. He's proud of it. It's
not like he wouldn't change himself backto women again. You know, there's
a scene where he goes up onstage because he had to announce that the
(10:26):
play or she had to announce thatthe play wasn't gonna happen anymore because one
of the not that it was said, right, but we know at the
fact that the one of the bestsupporting you know, roles ended up a
ding on like some heroin and shit, you know, and that sucks,
you know. Oh yeah, andthen drugs play in this film too,
like addiction, you know. Anyways, yeah, because there was a you
(10:50):
know, this person had an accident, so the guy had to deliver the
news or the chick rather had todeliver the news, and so to kind
of like cover the cost of itentertainment from these people who paid for these
tickets. Right, because it's alocal play, it's not like a big
big thing, but ended up beinga big thing. But anyways, she
talks about her body and how shegot herself done right, like how her
(11:13):
cheekbones costed like this much, hernose costed this much, but fuck it
didn't work out because you know,I got beat up, so I should
have just stayed with my old noseha ha ha, right boobs shoulders like
she just like she like appreciated herselfin a sense, you know, or
(11:35):
to some depreciated, but she likefully appreciated her body, you know,
because everything has a price, right. And it's a pretty hilarious, say,
because people took it as comedy,but at the same time, it's
it's reality. My name is RaySalazar followed me at Morning Shot Films on
ig. You can check out thisMorning Real podcast episode and other episodes on
(12:00):
my website, Morningshow Films ill CEO. You go to the website, you
scroll down just like you know,two little scrolls in boom. You're right
there. You can like listen andwatch the podcast. Thank you for tuning
in for this episode. I gotall kinds of episodes. I got an
episode with e Zone of that WeDon't Smoke the same podcast. I got
(12:22):
an episode with Xavier Guerrero of theTinfoil Hat, George Pratt Stories, you
name it, he does it.And we've done a bunch of films.
We've done Knocked Up, We've donethe Tale of Summer. I want to
do Her. I want to doa bunch of films. Thank you and
moving on to the next
Good Morning, and this is MorningReal, a host by Ray Salazar.
If I see it, I reviewit. This is a three or four
to two hundred mentor so podcast.The films that I review of all kinds
of languages, all kinds of colors, all kinds of nations, whatever subject
I review it. Today, I'mgonna talk about All About My Mother.
(00:23):
It's a Spanish film written and directedby Pedron Magoar. He's a legend in
modern filmmaking, especially coming out ofSpain, always creating films that are very
not it's it's supposed to insinuate melodrama, right, and normally when it comes
to melodrama, it's exaggerated. Hekind of likes to toil around the notion
(00:49):
of melodrama, Like I feel likehe likes to push it's it's not it's
not that he pushes his limits.He sort of gets close to it and
then comes back, but he doesn'tgo to the edge. You know,
he goes back and forth with themelodrama. And all of his stories are
not the same, you know,they're different, different. A lot of
it is, you know, areoccurring cast, especially with Antonio banderas Penelope
(01:14):
Cruz and whatnot. But whether hehas a reoccurring cast or not, every
film's different. It's always a differentsituation. Sometimes it will revolve around women,
revolve around men, both men andwomen, you know, mixed together
or singular. This guy, heknows how to He's a good writer,
he's a good director. He knowshow to paint a picture. You know,
(01:38):
he loves the color red. Anyways, I'm taking too much out of
Pedro and not about the film.In Spanish, this film is called dodos
so mi madre. This film cameout in nineteen ninety nine. It's a
comedy drama. Let me go tothe freaking credits, real quick Reindirected by
Pedro, produced by Augustine Amodova.I think it is bro starring Cecilia Roth,
(02:02):
Marisa Paredes, Gondela, Pena,Ania San Juan, Penelope Cruz Rossa,
Maria Sarda da Fernando, Fernando Gomez, Fernando Guillen, Tony Canto,
ELOI Assurin and Carlos Lossano. Yes, a lot of Spanish name cinematography Alfonso
(02:25):
Biro, edited by Jose Salcedo,music by Alberto Iglesias Production Companies and thenso
Renproductions France to cinema and via digital. Yeah. Man, it is an
all ass film, but it's reallygood. It's one of his, you
know, great films because it's it'sa complex film. It's about this mom
(02:49):
and son. Right, they goto this theater play. The son wants
to see this play, man like, he's kind of obsessed with the with
the play because he's into player.He wants he wants to be a playwright.
That's his thing, you know,that's his thing to get out of
his own self. Right. Momtakes him on his birthday, dude,
(03:10):
and he loves to play so muchthat after the play it's raining, pouring,
and he wants an autograph from thecast, right, especially from the
the main chick and the director ofthe film, I mean, the director
of the play. So they waitin the ring for like a while,
right, and the mom's like,man like, I don't think she's gonna
(03:34):
show, and the Sun's like,well, let's just wait, and next
thing, you know, taxi pullsup and boom, you see the main
actress of that play, and hekind of rushes off to her and tries
to get an autograph. But it'slike that woman, you know wasn't really
having it at that moment, andit broke his heart. And as the
(03:55):
taxi drives away, he chases afterher, and then a tragedy happens.
I won't say what happens. Tragedyhappens. The mom is in shambles.
She lost her son on his birthday, and obviously she's having a hard time
to move on. And next thing, you know, just flees from the
(04:17):
city, just kind of moves andthen she gets into some stuff, man
like stuff that you wouldn't expect awoman like that to happen. And as
the movie goes on, it's likean onion peel. You just get to
see the layers and layers of howdeep this story goes, especially with this
woman's life who lost her only son. Right, well, there's a lot
(04:39):
more to it, right, So, she lost her son and she doesn't
really know how to move on,so she kind of helps somebody out along
the way, right, somebody sheknew from her past life. And in
her past life, she used tobe a prostitute, you know, like
a prostitute. But not only that, she also was an actress in a
(05:00):
play as well, So she hashistory of like acting and all that stuff,
and it's stuff that like she's neverdone since right, and along the
way she decides, you know what, like I'm gonna check out this play
and I'm gonna like confront this womanwho you know, who wouldn't sign my
son's autograph, you know, especiallywaiting out in the rain, and they
(05:23):
get to know each other. Andthen things happened after that too, you
know. It's it's a really goodfilm about basically like a character study almost,
and that's what plays art in asense, you know, character studies,
you know, and things happen.I won't say what, but it's
dramatic. People get pregnant, somepeople get aids. There's a lot of
(05:44):
a mixture of cultures within itself,right, especially like al Molovar, he's
known to be pushing boundaries. Ishe pushes a lot of gender in there
in the films. Right. Helikes to like put you know, trans
into his films. Right. Idon't know the proper way to say it,
but he likes to put that there. And it's not like he's exploiting
(06:05):
these folks. Right in Spain,that's part of its culture. You know,
there's a lot of there's a youknow, a trans culture there,
you know, and I think forI don't know, the virus, he
obviously he wants to kind of putit out there because when it comes to
like theater and all that stuff,like it's like anything goes, you know,
(06:28):
like anybody could be anybody. Youcan play whoever you want and however
you want. It's the medium whereyou can like be yourself in a sense
by acting as somebody else. Becausethere's some folks out there who, you
know, they're not really themselves untilthey're like performing on stage or acting in
a film stuff like that, orplaying sports, you know, like ma'am
(06:53):
beat this guy's ass and bowling.But here I am at home just like
a you know, regular person,and these people bring themselves up. And
I like how this film brings peopleup, you know, through bad situations.
And these are situations that you wouldn'twish want to happen to yourself,
and here they are in front ofyour eyes, and all you can do
(07:13):
is just kind of watch and seewhere it goes. You know. Al
Mondolare is a very good storyteller.He really keeps you on your seat.
It's not like, oh my god, I mean, there's a couple of
moments where it's like, oh mygod. Because of the melodrama, you
get to discover things like this happenedto this person? Who's the father?
Oh yeah? Also like in thefilm, like as I was watching it,
I'm like, that got a show? Is dad? Right? I
(07:36):
mean I've seen this film, butit's like, who is the father?
What happened to the father? Becausehe is mentioned. He's almost a driving
force in this film, especially forthe main character of this film, right
as she moves to another city,you know, trying to like not deal
with her grief. I mean,that's one way of her dealing with it,
(07:56):
but it's it's crazy of the expertsthat she needed to go through to
kind of like kind of figure herlife out, herself, out her son's
life, because I mean, shewas really close to her son. But
at the same time, there areobviously there are things that she didn't really
know about, you know. Onething. One thing was that this son
(08:18):
was like kind of wondering about hisdad, and there's so many questions he
needed to be answered, and it'sunfortunate that he couldn't get those answers.
But we the audience get the answers. And that's what makes the film kind
of pretty tragic in a sense.You know, it's a it's a it's
a comedy, right, It's it'slike it's a comedy, but at the
(08:39):
same time, like in that layerof hilariousness and that layer of comedy,
there's strong themes in this film.There's there's a lot of anguish, a
lot of you know, actual drama, drama that we can probably relate to
despite of who's in the film,right, and and honestly that makes it
(09:01):
for a good film. I don'tI really have no problems with this film
watching it, especially watching it afterlike the third time in my life,
you know, I really enjoyed it. It's it's a film about love,
man, and the love of lovingyour parents in a sense and loving life
at the same time, because man, parents can either make us or break
(09:22):
us to a point where, like, you know, there's not anybody out
there who could sort of get usback on track to reality, to the
reality of things in life in ourlives. I like how Almodovar made a
story that revolves around that type ofsubject. You know, I would give
(09:43):
this film a complete four out offour tokes. I can't give it a
three or a three and a half. It's a four. It's I'm not
saying it's the perfect film or theperfect Spanish film. It's a really good
film and a lot of the forceseven by women, right. But at
the same time, there are likekey characters who are men in the film
(10:05):
that I found really intrigued by.You know, there's a character in the
film where it's obviously a dude,but you know, he became a woman,
and he's totally he totally owns it. He's proud of it. It's
not like he wouldn't change himself backto women again. You know, there's
a scene where he goes up onstage because he had to announce that the
(10:26):
play or she had to announce thatthe play wasn't gonna happen anymore because one
of the not that it was said, right, but we know at the
fact that the one of the bestsupporting you know, roles ended up a
ding on like some heroin and shit, you know, and that sucks,
you know. Oh yeah, andthen drugs play in this film too,
like addiction, you know. Anyways, yeah, because there was a you
(10:50):
know, this person had an accident, so the guy had to deliver the
news or the chick rather had todeliver the news, and so to kind
of like cover the cost of itentertainment from these people who paid for these
tickets. Right, because it's alocal play, it's not like a big
big thing, but ended up beinga big thing. But anyways, she
talks about her body and how shegot herself done right, like how her
(11:13):
cheekbones costed like this much, hernose costed this much, but fuck it
didn't work out because you know,I got beat up, so I should
have just stayed with my old noseha ha ha, right boobs shoulders like
she just like she like appreciated herselfin a sense, you know, or
(11:35):
to some depreciated, but she likefully appreciated her body, you know,
because everything has a price, right. And it's a pretty hilarious, say,
because people took it as comedy,but at the same time, it's
it's reality. My name is RaySalazar followed me at Morning Shot Films on
ig. You can check out thisMorning Real podcast episode and other episodes on
(12:00):
my website, Morningshow Films ill CEO. You go to the website, you
scroll down just like you know,two little scrolls in boom. You're right
there. You can like listen andwatch the podcast. Thank you for tuning
in for this episode. I gotall kinds of episodes. I got an
episode with e Zone of that WeDon't Smoke the same podcast. I got
(12:22):
an episode with Xavier Guerrero of theTinfoil Hat, George Pratt Stories, you
name it, he does it.And we've done a bunch of films.
We've done Knocked Up, We've donethe Tale of Summer. I want to
do Her. I want to doa bunch of films. Thank you and
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