IMDb RATING
7.8/10
105K
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A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 59 wins & 40 nominations total
Antonia San Juan
- Agrado
- (as Antonia Sanjuan)
Rosa Maria Sardà
- Madre de Rosa
- (as Rosa María Sardá)
Yael Barnatán
- Yael
- (as Yael Bernatán)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAgrado's monologue was based on a real life event. When the electronic system of an Argentinian theater failed, the director suspended the show. Actress Lola Membrives decided to give the news to the audience and make them an offer: if they'd stay, they could listen to the narration of her life.
- Alternate versionsThree minutes are cut from the US version. The total running time of the Spanish version is 104 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Instinct/The Loss of Sexual Innocence/Limbo (1999)
- SoundtracksGorrión
Written by Dino Saluzzi
Performed by Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Marc Johnson and José Saluzzi
Courtesy of ECM Records
(from "Cité de la musique" 1997)
Featured review
What I like most about Almodovar's films, this one in particular, is the way he will grab you and pull you into a world you would not normally know and then, confront you with people's lives, emotions, relationships. Manuela, the mother who at the beginning seems so in control and clinical, earnest in her love and with the best intentions for her son, is shown to be much like you and me... full of doubts, questions, a need for answers and trying to understand how her life course has brought her to the present day and made her who she is. Barcelona in winter is richly filmed and serves as a backdrop for the renewing of old satisfying friendships and the budding of new ones, happening simultaneously and somewhat unexpectedly. It rings so true. The slow realisation that we are never really complete, that it's the people we love and live with, or avoid and later regret having done so, that makes us who we are. Almodovar sees the human condition and paints it carefully in this film.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,344,738
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $50,362
- Nov 7, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $67,957,990
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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