Also known as
Todo sobre mi madre
Lists
- ranked 76 in Edward Copeland's Satyajit Ray Memorial Anything-But-Definitive List of Non-English Language Films
- ranked 586 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 606 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 609 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of Alliance of Women Film Journalists Top 100 Films
- one of Best Foreign Film Academy Award Winners
- one of Guardian 1,000 films to see before you die
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
Best to realize going in that the sentence "all about my mother" does not place its speaker central to the film, though the introduction might hint otherwise -- this really is all about [his] mother, and about mothers in general. What does it mean to be a mother? (And, to a lesser, emasculated extent, a father?)