{Little Black Book, Delhi}
-FILM CLUB-
brings Pedro Almodovar’s
‘Todo Sobre Mi Madre’
{with English subtitles}
The film on the surface seems like a melodramatic tale about mothers and their relationships with their children, a theme we are very familiar with in India. But a highly intelligent script and wonderfully rounded characters lift this film to a level of brilliance. Varied influences from Tennessee Williams to All About Eve, and Almodovar’s signature filming style with bright colors and bizarre but very human characters make this a fun, yet layered film that you will go home and think about for a few days. It won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film and was a rage in Cannes, winning Almodovar the Best Director Award.
Date | Saturday, August 11, 2012
Time | Screening starts at 5.30pm
Venue | Lodi- The Garden Restaurant, Lodhi Road
About the Movie |
Pedro Almodovar has always been fascinated by the Spanish obsession with love and death, histrionics and emotional extremes, and the traditional rigidity of sexual identity. This superbly plotted, supremely confident black comedy film is about a single mother Manuela {Cecilia Roth}, who returns to Barcelona on losing her son, Esteban, in a road accident. On coming back to the town she left 17 years before, she meets Esteban’s father who now calls himself Lola after becoming a transvestite. Through him, she meets an idealistic nun, Rosa {Penélope Cruz}, and becomes the assistant to Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired. This funny, sad and emotionally generous movie is about love, parenthood, friendship and loyalty, about life, art and acting roles, about re-creating oneself according to one’s dreams, and about what, if anything, is truly natural.
First round of drinks is on us :)
See you on Saturday!
