Blu-ray, DVD Release: All About My Mother

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 28, 2019
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $27.99
Studio: Criterion

The 1999 Oscar-winning melodrama All About My Mother from Pedro Almodóvar (Broken Embraces) provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood.

In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun (Penélope Cruz, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!); an illustrious star of the stage (Marisa Paredes, The Skin I Live In); and a transgender sex worker (Antonia San Juan).

Beautifully performed and bursting with cinematic references, All About My Mother is a vibrant tribute to female fortitude, a one-of-a-kind family portrait, and a work of boundless compassion.

Criterion’s new Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film contain the following:

* New 2K digital restoration, supervised by executive producer Agustín Almodóvar and approved by director Pedro Almodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* Fifty-two-minute documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon
* Television program from 1999 featuring Pedro Almodóvar and his mother, Francisca Caballero, along with Cruz, San Juan, Paredes, and Roth
* Forty-eight-minute post-screening Q&A in Madrid from 2019, featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Paredes
* New English subtitle translation
* An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson, along with (Blu-ray only) an interview with Pedro Almodóvar and a tribute he wrote to his mother, both from 1999