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...ABOUT MY MOTHER A Madrid nurse (Cecilia Roth), luxuriating in grief, goes to Barcelona, where she learns to live again by tending to creatures even more wounded than she. Pedro Almodovar's screwball melodrama has all the kooky verve of his early comedies, but with a depth and life-enhancing warmth that proves Spain's bad boy has reached a vibrant maturity. If this movie doesn't touch your heart, consult a cardiologist. You may be missing something...
...when Berkeley activist and education scholar Pedro Noguera told the university's student newspaper he was accepting a position at Harvard in part because the venerable New England institution had a stronger commitment to diversity, more than a few jaws dropped in amazement...
...Speaking at a news conference in San Juan on Friday, Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Rossello quickly rejected the plan, telling reporters, "Personally I feel deceived with the position that's been taken because it doesn't faithfully reflect what we have been discussing with the president...
European art film, especially of the contemporary Cannes Film Festival marquis, continues on its exclusionary march toward a self-selected and well-informed audience with the addition of Pedro Almodvar's 13th full length film, All About My Mother. This film weaves together a beautifully crafted, though at times maudlin and contrived, plot with expert film technique. Yet in this attempt to re-create an All about Eve for the '90s, where life imitates acting imitating life, Almodvar's masterpiece runs the risk of alienating any viewer who isn't a film buff...
...melodrama, passion and grief--is to say they are every bit as beguiling as he is. And the only thing to say about his new film, All About My Mother, is that it is even better: the most mature and satisfying work in a glittering, consistently surprising career. "Pedro is a great dancer," says Marisa Paredes, one of six superb actresses in Mother, "and this is his tango...