S2E19.5: Todo sobre mi Madre
Added 2023-03-09 09:33:02 +0000 UTCThis week on KJB, Alice shares with us a film that holds an immense amount of meaning for her; Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 'All About My Mother'. The film follows a woman trying to find meaning for herself after the death of her son, and the episode of KJB is of a distinctly Hedwig style. Joining us is returning guest, writer Christopher Caldwell-Kelly, someone to whom the movie also means an immense amount.
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Comments
i had had this episode unwatched for many months and finally decided to watch the movie so i could watch the episode. obliterated, can't think of it without wanting to break down ugly crying. thank you for exposing me to this and also man from uncle.
PrismShank
2025-04-07 01:53:56 +0000 UTCI loved this episode, but you failed to mention, how Rosas turtleneck/hoop scarf fits progress from moderate to outright excessive over the course of the movie.
Wuppdich
2024-06-06 22:48:53 +0000 UTCYou all should review l’Immensita, a film about how cool it would be to have Penelope Cruz as your mom as a trans child.
Maya the Anti-Engineer
2024-04-01 11:41:49 +0000 UTCI couldn't agree more with November's rant about ambiguity, it was profoundly touching and it means a lot to me as a genderqueer person
Nico Farías
2024-02-16 00:20:27 +0000 UTCjust listened to this the day before my hysterectomy and Alice's point about your pre-transition life being similar to a rehearsal really hit. Thanks for the amazing ep
A.E. Ross
2023-09-07 01:12:50 +0000 UTCI'm so down for Alice's cinema choices and kind of wish you all had a second podcast for your favorite arthouse and/or queer films. Being cis doesn't mean I don't want to know Alice's other #gender film recs besides Vivre Sa Vie!
Lauren Shear
2023-05-01 00:02:42 +0000 UTCI loved this. Thank you all. One of your best Patron episodes to date.
Knights Who Say Sledge
2023-04-21 00:19:40 +0000 UTCLoved this episode, honestly sorry I didn't listen sooner. I always love how you guys cover queer films, it always feels very genuine, even your criticism is coming from a place of serious thought. The discussion about cis people playing trans people made me think of Wong Foo, a movie that's either inevitable for this show to cover, or completely off the table on premise alone.
Isopod-Gal
2023-03-20 12:49:38 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this in the theater. I was in mes school at the time. HIV treatment and life expectancy was changing fast. There were already patients with undetectable viral loads. I remember one of our infectious diseases professors that patients were starting to ask if they could have partners without infecting them as their viral load was undetectable. Problem was at the time they had no idea. Also what kind of jobs could you perform? The side effects of the medications were hard
Loyda R. Ayala Rosado
2023-03-17 03:21:14 +0000 UTCI love your serious episodes, I love the genuine emotion that comes out during them and the catharsis of the humor on the tail end, but- If you keep trying to crack your audience like the Frabrege eggs some of us may well be, you will reap a harvest of self-questioning DMs ok
Noblesse Oblahaj
2023-03-13 19:47:42 +0000 UTCSee: Contrapoints - Canceling. A similar joke was also made in the 'The Foreigner' episode
Hoob
2023-03-13 16:34:31 +0000 UTCWould really like to know what the whole "The last of..." joke was. Otherwise, great episode.
David Alexander
2023-03-13 05:16:41 +0000 UTC1. This was really beautiful. What you said Alice was really nice. 2. Can someone tell me what Abi said "the last of the..." cause it sounds like a great job but I missed it.
Gabe
2023-03-11 06:33:21 +0000 UTCFirst time I saw this I spent a decent chunk of the movie awaiting a much more galaxy brain twist where manuela was actually the the woman who played Stanley in streetcar, and the missing parent in the amateur theatre photo at the start was some cis lady who had played Stella. I got in too deep at the part when she watches the streetcar performance and cries at seeing Stanley and Stella, thought maybe she's thinking about what she did, rather than what was done to her
Ba'athist Forklift Driver
2023-03-11 01:55:56 +0000 UTCGenuinely can't tell if you were joking or not at the end with the MLP movie, but I would love to hear that episode.
Ember Aegle
2023-03-10 16:30:46 +0000 UTCWhat was that joke Abi makes where she asks Alice "Are you the last of..." Then she's drowned out by laughter and says she's been waiting to make that joke for 90 minutes?
Marius Müller
2023-03-10 16:30:03 +0000 UTCit's very interesting to me the way you evoke "sex world" because what y'all describe is sort of just, like, the world i grew up in? or at least the world i was *sold*. A world where everyone is just sort of down, not bad but down anyhow. the clash with reality was kind of a rude awakening and i wonder how much almodovar's film making was a part of that when i never saw any of his movies.
Curatrix Ribston
2023-03-10 13:02:22 +0000 UTC*its obviously
dm
2023-03-10 07:45:41 +0000 UTCIt’s “this is silly and frivolous but also it really matters, because of, not despite, it’s silliness and frivolity”
dm
2023-03-10 07:45:16 +0000 UTCCamp absolutely requires sincerity. I think that’s something people often forget when describing something as camp. Camp is, to me, finding the sincerity in aesthetic trappings that traditionally read as insincere.
dm
2023-03-10 07:43:48 +0000 UTCMy Parents bought me some Spanish DVDs to help with my GCSEs that included Almodovar films. They were surprised that I'm a transsexual
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2023-03-09 17:34:17 +0000 UTCI thought we'd established that the great emotional film for the Caldwell-Kelly family was Winter Kills!
Gabe
2023-03-09 17:25:32 +0000 UTCbanger episode folks. being transgender does be complicated, now gunna go have lots of feelings about it.
Peggy Blue
2023-03-09 15:44:02 +0000 UTCAlice’s speech at the end very nearly made me tear up because relinquishing the mask I wore for years of “gay man” was one of the hardest parts of transition for me, and my identity has since evolved in beautiful and queer ways, probably because I played that persona for so long. So thanks for that, guess I’ve gotta go watch this film now (for all its faults)
Hazel Smith
2023-03-09 12:57:21 +0000 UTCSuch a Beautiful film. Obviously parts of the movie is quite dated, but viewed with the context of when it was made in mind it's so good.
Ole Edvard Evenstuen
2023-03-09 11:52:57 +0000 UTCPer Abi at 1:27:40: depends on if you want to count the recent sitcom Together Together as a major release I guess, inasmuch as anything could be a major release during COVID. Distributed by Sony, I'd count it. Also yes, you should do Perfect Blue, and also you should probably do Love Exposure for related reasons
Nah
2023-03-09 11:50:33 +0000 UTCGenuinely thought this film would be like the Tacoma Bridge Disaster of KJB
Jack Connell
2023-03-09 10:04:47 +0000 UTC
