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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
Few melodramas with such tragic underpinnings inspire such intense happiness as Pedro Almodovar's masterwork, a spectacular synthesis of the Spanish director's fabulous fetishes -- proud women, lovely boys, beautiful drag queens, grand movie stars -- imbued with a new tenderness. With her teenaged son killed in a car accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) seeks out the boy's father, and along the way she depends on the kindness of strangers, including a pregnant nun (Penelope Cruz), a great stage actress (Marisa Paredes), and a transsexual performer (Antonia San Juan) who celebrates female authenticity. A
Posted Dec 03, 1999
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- Editor's Choice ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER | Alice King
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