| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
[All About My Mother]
Explicitly derived from All About Eve and Streetcar Named Desire that cannot rise about its derivations.
The absurdity of contemporary Western sex roles and particularly the transsexual desire to be what you cannot is unknowingly parodied. The sexual humor is spot-on and very funny; presenting women as the willing tools of men’s childish sexual-cravings: The kind of gags women tell each other when men are not around.
As usual with director, Pedro Almodóvar, the plotting is surreal and coincidental, in the extreme, to enable him to more clearly attack his favourite targets: Roman Catholics, machista men and female complicity in their own oppression. Yet, the women here bond well because they possess instinctive understanding - especially about the relationship between mothers and sons.
All in all, the issues are not fully dealt with and the title is redundant since all Almodóvar’s films are about his mother.
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