In Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, mother doesn't know best and that makes for a most intriguing journey of discovery.

 All Esteban (Eloy Azorin) wants for his 18th birthday is for his mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) to tell him about his father.
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No one who saw Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother doubted that this vibrant film, his glorious homage to women, was the best thing entered in the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

 No one except David Cronenberg and his jury. They gave the Spaniard the best director prize, and handed the Palme d'Or as best film to an obscure Belgian drama called Rosetta.
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