All About My Mother [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"Contrary to its title, the film is not about a mother, but about maternity or even paternity. Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a thirty-something nurse and single mother, lives alone with her son Esteban (Eloy Azorin), a Truman Capote fan writing a story about his mother for a competition. After watching A Streetcar Named Desire in a theatre, Esteban is hit by a car as he runs after the actress Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), who plays Blanche Dubois in the play, and dies in the arms of his mother. Man...