Is that all there is? That very well could be your reaction at the end of Todo sobre mi madre, renowned Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar's latest effort. The film, which opened in late 1999 in the United States as All About My Mother and which won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, seems upon first watching to be little more than a well-done, stylish soap opera. Like any soap, it is made up of out-of-nowhere tragedies, lies, and improbable coincidences. On the surface that seems to be all there is.
If that's your reaction, wait a day or two or three, and you may see the film differently. There is more, much more, here than melodrama.
Transvestism (trans...- Lat. vestio - to put on; travestism as a synonym), is a striving for dressing up into the contrary gender' clothes.
We all have already heard about transvestites, but usually the discussion was devoted to men, while woman, who likes dressing up into the male clothes, can be a transvestite too. History of women, wearing male clothes, has much more deeply rooted then it may seem at first sight.
Theatre and cinema Overwhelming majority has heard about Japanese theatre Kabuki, where men perform all possible roles, including women roles; less amount of people is concerned about another ancient Japanese theatre - Takarzuka, where all the roles, male ones among them, were performed by women only.
Trying to figure out what cinematic transvestism has meant for queer audiences is problematic not only because transvestism has never meant one single thing, but also because representations of transvestism have often fallen short of what we today consider "queer."
While today we may take for granted the subversive possibilities of drag, it nevertheless remains true that actual representations of drag in film have reinforced conventional ideas of gender more often than they have challenged them.
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Is that all there is? That very well could be your reaction at the end of Todo sobre mi madre, renowned Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar's latest effort. The film, which opened in late 1999 in the United States as All About My Mother and which won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, seems upon first watching to be little more than a well-done, stylish soap opera. Like any soap, it is made up of out-of-nowhere tragedies, lies, and improbable coincidences. On the surface that seems to be all there is.
Transvestism (trans...- Lat. vestio - to put on; travestism as a synonym), is a striving for dressing up into the contrary gender' clothes. 
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