A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired. She helps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's lover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With echoes of Lorca, "All About Eve," and "Streetcar Named Desire," the mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship.
Plot Keywords: Registered Nurse, Drug Addiction, Vomit, Nursing, Drug Addict, Female Nudity, Plain Clothes Nun, Lesbian, Single Mother, AIDS, Melodrama, Organ Donation, Nun, Controversial, Pregnancy, Hospital, Mother Daughter Relationship, Mother Son Relationship, Actress, Assault, Autograph, Backstage, Barcelona Spain, Birthday, Cafe, Cemetery, Divorcee, Dog, Friendship, Funeral, Gay Slur, Hit By Car, Journal, Loss Of Daughter, Loss Of Son, Madrid Spain, Play, Prostitute, Rainstorm, Slow Motion, Topless, Train, Transvestism, Absent Father, Bisexual Interest, Pansexual Interest, Pneumatic, Pregnant Nun, Silicone, Tits, Transplant Recipient, Transvestite Prostitute, Watching Play, Whore, Actor, Apartment, Baby, Blow Job, Death, Doctor, Drinking, Drug Use, El Salvador, Father Daughter Relationship, Father Son Relationship, Flashback Sequence, Friend, Heart Transplant, Hiv Positive, Husband Wife Relationship, Ice Cream, Kiss, Letter, Love, Motorcycle, Mourning, Mugging, Notebook, Nurse, Organ Donor, Photograph, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatrist, Redemption, Survival, Taxi, Teenage Boy, Theatre, Theft, Tranquilizer, Transvestite, Truck Driver, Unconditional Love, Voice Over Narration, Writer, Chanel Suit, Cock, Coruna Spain, Hypertension, Medinaceli Square, Prick, Sucking Cock, Watching Television, Well Hung, Beating, Children, Crying, Diaper, Driving, Eating, Fight, Food Poisoning, Heart, Lie, Machismo, Monologue, Narration From The Grave, Personal Assistant, Reading, Seminar, Smoking, Social Worker, Sunglasses, Switchblade, Television Commercial, Death Of Son, Independent Film.
i'm so offended by that trailr. its Almodóvar's masterpiece. That does no justice to the story, the characters nor the feat of acting that is those women. shame on who made that trailer
bgginger 1 year ago 15
I translated the title initially as 'All Over My Mother'. Whoops!
Dendiol 1 year ago 3