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...purpose for her journey detract from Almodvar's intention that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs...
...Penelope Cruz), a nun who deserves many fretful prayers, and her bitter mom (Rosa Maria Sarda); Huma Rojo (Paredes), an actress who is playing Blanche in the touring production of Streetcar that Manuela and her son had seen in Madrid; Huma's druggie lover Nina (Candela Pena); and Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a transsexual prostitute who has raised artifice to a philosophy. "You are more authentic," this dear creature says, "the more you resemble what you dreamed you are." Manuela helps all these women resemble their dreams on their way to transcendence, accommodation or early death. By the end, Manuela...
...your mom on her very best day. But All About My Mother also gives the viewer reasons to laugh and cheer. It brims with life; it has more convulsive plot twists than any recent Hollywood movie; it parades a fistful of seductive Spanish stars (Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan); it shows Almodovar, the Spanish writer-director best known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, in full emotional and cinematic maturity, with no loss of his early pansexual pizazz. Here is a beautifully composed mash note to the theater and to theatricality, to actresses and mothers...
Film scholar Antonia Lant has focused on silent cinema. She is currently working on a book-in-progress titled The Red Velvet Seat
...part of the comprehensive course, Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Antonia Lant will present the first 35 years of film to interested students during the next four months. With only one class a week on Thursday from 10 to 11:30 a.m., and weekly screenings at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays, the class is a light, multimedia elective...