Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Acting
Antonia San Juan's Agrado monologue steals everything.
Direction
Almodóvar's color-coded emotional architecture.
Writing
All About Eve meets Sirk with Spanish fire.
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Cecilia Roth
Manuela
Marisa Paredes
Huma Rojo
Candela Peña
Nina
Antonia San Juan
Agrado
Penélope Cruz
Rosa
Rosa María Sardà
Rosa's Mother
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Rosa's Father
Fernando Guillén
Doctor in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
Toni Cantó
Lola
Carlos Lozano
Mario
Eloy Azorín
Esteban
Manuel Morón
Doctor 1
José Luis Torrijo
Doctor 2
Juan José Otegui
Gynecologist
Carmen Balagué
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