The article suggests that there is a special and ironic treatment of the genre melodrama. All About My Mother is about a particularly strained makeshift family, but it finds beauty in what many would look away from. The article suggests that there is a special and ironic treatment of the genre melodrama. All of them were cut in half. After the tragic death of her son, a woman returns to her native Barcelona to start a new life and tell the boy’s transgender father about the son he never knew he had. Furthermore, melodrama has always proved rich in its visual style, like… . In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. All About My Mom (Korean: 부탁해요, 엄마; RR: Butakhaeyo, Eomma; lit. Meanwhile,… All About my Mother is directed and written by the Spaniard Pedro Almodovar. It argues that Almodovar re-contextualize the Hollywood Melodrama genre and uses it as a tool to subvert issues about gender Tweet Share Post Bookmark Subscribe. It airs on KBS2 every Saturday and Sunday. All About My Mother (1999) Despite his transgressive material, a lot of Almodóvar’s themes are fairly conservative, considering the importance of familial ties and values. ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, 1999 Pedro Almodovar’s exquisite melodrama (and a queered-up riff on All About Eve) is a film about mothers, women, and the fortitude of female friendship. Pedro Almodovar's moving and funny tribute to women, the men who want to be women and the glories of melodrama was an audience and critics' favorite around the world. A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. With themes of love, suffering, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption, melodrama puts its audiences through the emotional wringer. All About My Mother is about many mothers, starting with the one whom it is dedicated to: Pedro Almodovar’s own.. From there the movie expands to firstly include Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who lives with her 18-year-old son Esteban (Eloy Azorin), an aspiring writer. P edro Almodovar's new film, All About My Mother, has arrived: after a British premiere last weekend at the Edinburgh Film Festival, it receives its full UK release today. DaebakPH has been learned earlier that the Korean family melodrama series "All About My Mom" is set to be aired this July. P edro Almodóvar’s best film since Law of Desire, All About My Mother is an affecting ode to the female spirit, the maternal instinct, and the craving for melodrama—a soulful mix of comedy and tragedy so life-affirming it leaves you hankering for your mother’s embrace. Internationally acclaimed writer/director Pedro Almodóvar (2003 Oscar® winner, Best Screenplay, Talk to Her; Bad Education, The Flower of my Secret) delivers his finest film yet, a poignant masterpiece of unconditional love, survival and redemption. Melodrama Mondays: All About My Mother by Mark Haslam "Since an ineluctable part of being a human self is suffering, part of what we humans come to art for is an experience of suffering, necessarily a vicarious experience .