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All About My Mother
Why this pick
Shares High Heels’ theatrical feminine world, lush melodrama, and emotionally charged bonds between mothers, daughters, and chosen family.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1991 1h 49m ESP
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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High Heels
ComedyDrama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
For High Heels’ love of flamboyant surfaces, pop-inflected Madrid, and women navigating emotional chaos with sharp comic energy.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Rebeca, a TV news broadcaster, is at Madrid's airport anxiously awaiting the return of her mother whom she has not seen since she was a child. Her mother, Becky del Páramo, a famous torch song singer, is coming back to Spain after a fifteen-year stay in Mexico. While waiting, Rebeca recalls incidents from her childhood in which her mother left her in the background of her life preoccupied with her career and her romantic life. For fifteen years Rebeca has longed for her mother to come back and for the love and affection of which she had been deprived. Nevertheless, her love is accompanied by a deep resentment.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Victoria Abril
Rebeca
Marisa Paredes
Becky del Páramo
Miguel Bosé
Juez Domínguez
Anna Lizaran
Margarita
Cristina Marcos
Paula
Mayrata O'Wisiedo
Madre del Juez Domínguez
Miriam Díaz-Aroca
Isabel
Pedro Díez del Corral
Alberto