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All About My Mother : Opening Sequence

Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse and single-mother, celebrates her son, Esteban's (Eloy Azorin), 17th birthday. For his birthday, Esteban asks for details of his mother's life so he can write about her.

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Credits, Opening, close-up, color, dissolve, explanatory insert, extreme close-up, focus, high angle, intertextuality, long shot, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mobile framing, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, over the shoulder shot, overhead shot, shot/reverse shot, two-shot

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"Opening Sequence" in All About My Mother. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, El Deseo, 1999, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=4250

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Julia Sayette

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