All About My Mother DVD Criterion short film: Cúilín Dualach

short film: Cúilín Dualach

Fantasy and reality blur

a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous

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All About My Mother DVD Criterion short film: Cúilín Dualach'All About My Mother' Director: Pedro Almodvar (1999) Spanish w English subtitles Stylistically evoking classic Hollywood melodrama Almodvar tells the story of a mother who when she tragically loses her teenage son sets out for Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the son he never knew he had. There she forms bonds with three women, different to herself and each other, and finds some purpose again.