Directed by : Pedro ALMODÓVAR
Country : SPAIN, FRANCE Length : 101 minutes
Award for Best Director , 1999
After her son Esteban is killed in an accident, Manuela reads in his notebook, which he always carried with him: "Last night mom showed me a photograph. It was ripped in half. I feel like my life is missing that same half." He is referring to his father. Manuela never told him who he was, it was difficult to explain to a teenage son that his father has bigger breasts than she, and that he answers to the name of Lola. That silence weighs on her conscience like a crime. She decides to go to Barcelona in search of Lola, to tell him that they had a son, and that he is dead. The search for a man with such a name cannot be easy, and in fact it isn't.
Pedro ALMODÓVAR
Pedro ALMODÓVAR - Script / Dialogue
Pedro ALMODÓVAR - Director
Affonso BEATO - Cinematography
Alberto IGLESIAS - Music
José SALCEDO - Film Editor
Antxon GÓMEZ - Set decorator
Penélope CRUZ - Soeur Rosa
Rosa Maria SARDA - La mère de Rosa
Marisa PAREDES - Huma Rojo
Cécilia ROTH - Manuela
Candela PENA - Nina
Antonia SAN JUAN - Agrado
Film's poster © DR
Production
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