Frank

Frank

On Almodóvar and the lost art of autographs

All About My Mother (1999)

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Ira Madison III
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Cecilia Roth and a larger-than-life portrait of Marisa Paredes.

All About My Mother

April 16, 1999

Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar

I used to spend time in school perfecting my signature. Not out of some notion that I was going to become famous and end up signing autographs, but because I was fascinated by cursive. I loved the lines, the curves, how …

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