Crossing borders: All about my mother (1999) by Pedro Almodóvar

Abstract

The present article on Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother (1999) is based on the hybridity that characterises the director’s whole work. The aesthetics of hybridity allows us to show the multifaceted positions of the director, his sensitive and subtle combinations of a dark past and a colourful present, of different national and international cultural elements like his homages to Latin American artists such as Caetano Veloso, Chavela Vargas, Agustín Lara. Furthermore we have to add the links to literary and filmic genres, and above all to sexual genders – masterly represented here by means of Almodóvar’s sense of the theatre.