Whole About The Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) occurs as 1999 film written and directed per Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan and Penélope Cruz. Widely regarded when Almodóvar's finest & virtually all matured film up to now, it won a 1999 Academy Award for Best Foreign-language Film and seven Goya Awards including Better Film, Better Director & Best Actress within the Leading Role for Roth.

A film deals by having complex issues like AIDS, transvestitism, sexual identity, gender, religion, faith, & existentialism; the characters come presented within the straightforward & mostly unromanticized & non-judgemental fashion however by using an edge of dark humour.

A title occurs as play on the film title All About Eve, of which Esteban is a fan. Watching a film using his mother, he complains that a translation of the title into Spanish occurs as unfortunate of these, & should keep around been "Todo sobre Eva." "Todo sobre mi madre" is too a title of an essay he is writing at a instance of his dying.

the film tells a story of a nurse known as Manuela (Roth) world health organization works within Madrid & lives using her teen boy Esteban, world health organization never knew his father, and wants to exist as the writer.

Of these nighttime fallowing watching the play of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Esteban is running whenever the car of Huma Rojo (Paredes), a actress world health organization played Blanche DuBois, for an autograph when he is hit by a car & dies. Manuela understands a accident &, heartsick, leaves Madrid to visit her boy's father, Lolthe, world health organization occurs as cross-dresser & a cyprian inside Barcelona, and inform him of the being of the boy he never knew. When inside Barcelonthe, Manuela reunites using an old friend, a warmly & witty transsexual cyprian known as Agrado (San Juan). She likewise meets & becomes deeply required by using Sister Rosthe (Cruz), a immature, pregnant nun world health organization has known Manuela's ex-ex; & a actress that her boy experienced admired.

A film was known as by Richard Schickel of Instance Magazine, among more critics, when a right of the season.