This movie made me want to be an actress. Or maybe it made me want to make movies. It made me understand movies as something that could be simultaneously joyful and heartbroken, and that those things didn’t have to cancel each other out.
All About My Mother was a revelation. It showed me what cinema could be—that cinema could speak about the women that I love, could celebrate their pain, their joy, their struggles.
— Xavier Dolan · The Guardian: Xavier Dolan: the new wunderkind of world cinema
I discovered Almodóvar at 16 with All About My Mother. It was a revelation. It showed me what cinema could be—that it could speak about the women that I love, could celebrate their pain, their joy, their struggles.
— Xavier Dolan · The Guardian: Xavier Dolan: the new wunderkind of world cinema
It was a revelation. It showed me what cinema could be. It showed me that cinema could speak about the women that I love, could celebrate their pain, their joy, their struggles.
— Xavier Dolan · The Guardian: Xavier Dolan: the new wunderkind of world cinema
Films That Influenced Todo sobre mi madre
