There’s a title card at the end of “All About My Mother” where director Pedro Almodóvar dedicates his film to “all the people who have wanted to be mothers”; the fact that he doesn’t say “women” but “people” is enough to capture the essence of this wonderful work of art. Trying to do justice to her son’s last wish, Manuela travels to Barcelona looking for her “son’s heart” and reveal the whole story to his father. Tinged with overcoming melancholy and heartache, Almodóvar’s movie deals with the roles we have to play in life.

We all know about Guillermo Del Toro’s obsession with the supernatural, surreal and fantastic – Perhaps many of us have watched the majestic Pan’s Labyrinth, or the Hellboy series, both generously suffused with special effects – an approach that has become his signature. However, this time around, he’s donned the producer’s hat, and put his old friend Juan Antonio Bayona in the director’s chair.Bayona has repaid his debt by making a film that could have been easily mistaken as Del Toro’s brainchild.

A subterranean quadriplegic fights for the right to a dignified death for three agonizingly continuous decades, wrestling fearlessly despite his benumbed body for a freedom that eliminates life. The Sea Inside is director Alejandro Amenábar’s powerful 2004 Oscar winning film, Based on a true life story of Ramon Sampedro, a traveling sailor who was paralyzed neck down after a deathlike accident… A stirring account of a man’s appeal for the right to release from his crippled life, disabled love, claustrophobic…

Almodovar the omniscient knower and portrayer of all conjugating human emotions first stepped onto his now-accustomed plinth of global recognition with the release of his neurotic comedy, Women on the verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Starring one of Almodovar’s favorite actress Carmen Maura, this film turned Almodovar into an international cinematic sparkler. Women on the verge… frothily shows you the tragic impasses of four interrelated women, joined together with an enervating universal problem…

“Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine”
It is the solemn duty of a film to transport its viewer into another dimension having interwoven layers of illusions and realities, where one can momentarily live a lifetime of happiness and fulfillment. However, it is wishful thinking to expect a movie to give a illusionary make-over to reality, and simultaneously have the surreal put on the cloak of the real. Pan’s labyrinth is one of the very rare movies that make this expectation more tangible as it takes us on a tour of dreams while keeping our feet firmly planted in reality…

The “dashing, charismatic buccaneering” (as I have called him elsewhere) Spanish storyteller, Pedro Almodovar, is back. And this time he packs more punch with his dynamic panache in another vignette…

If Jeunet is the quintessential creative genius of French Cinema, then Pedro Almodovar is his dashing, charismatic-buccaneering Spanish counterpart. He treats every subject so delicately, dexterously and comprehensively that one is left to wonder how could one man know the most well hidden, unfathomable details of the human psyche so intimately – it’s almost as [...]

Volver (meaning “to return”) is another manifestation of the genius of Pedro Almodovar, who is known to make films on idiosyncratic interpersonal relationships. In this movie, the protagonist, Raimunda (outstandingly portrayed by Penelope Cruz) is going through a rough patch in life when certain events make her come to terms with harsh realities and evaluate [...]