Apr – May 2022 Film Calendar

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All About My Mother with Bad Education

Thu, Apr 28 | 7:30pm | TMT

All About My Mother

Winner of the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1999, Almodóvar's moving meditation on motherhood, All About My Mother , accom- panies nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) after she loses her teenage son in an accident and donates his heart. She travels to Barcelona to find his father, now a transgender woman. On her journey she reunites with Agrado (Antonia San Juan) a transgender sex worker and meets an HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz). Her journey brings her an unexpected family.

DIRECTOR: Pedro Almodóvar.

WRITTEN BY: Pedro Almodóvar.

CAST: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña. 1999. 101 min. Spain/France. Color. Scope. Spanish. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Bad Education

This film within a film stars Gael García Bernal and Fele Martínez as two long-lost friends who share a disturbing past. Bad Education is a meditative exploration of memory and loss, while engaging with themes of transgressive sex, drug addiction, and the Catholic Church’s legacy of sexual abuse. Loaded with powerful imagery and a compelling use of meta-fiction, it’s a pleasure to get lost in its mysterious and labyrinthine plot.

DIRECTOR: Pedro Almodóvar.

WRITTEN BY: Pedro Almodóvar.

CAST: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar. 2004. 106 min. Spain. Color. Scope. Spanish. 35mm.

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

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