This 1999 Spanish movie is pretty good too. Don't expect anything chic in it. But the portrait of a great mother shines and is every bit unforgettable.


Maria is a beautiful but troubled woman adrift in a nameless city in southern Spain. She drinks, smokes and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother, who comes to stay with her daughter when Maria's father needs surgery at the hospital in town. The mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor downstairs while patiently trying to reach out to her daughter, whose bitterness is no match for her mother's love and devotion. Stars Maria Galiana, Ana Fernandez, Carlos Alvarez.