All About My Mother

I really enjoy film. I probably see fifty or so movies a year. However, I'm not a big "favorites" person. I don't have a favorite actor or actress, or a favorite director, or even a favorite movie, short of a nostalgic love for Hoosiers. Recently, though, I had occasion to rent Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother. I'm not sure what caused me to pick it off the shelf, but I loved it. I was originally supposed to watch it for a Gender Studies class I took in college, but didn't, and now am kicking myself thricefold because I would have loved writing a paper about it. It's beautiful, and touching, and gripping, and manages to do it all without being slick or maudlin. That's all I will say other than imploring you to see it. Now I have to try and find a place in Central Ohio that's showing Talk to Her.