Todo sobre mi madre, women and new family models through metafiction and intertextuality

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyse the use that the film director Pedro Almodóvar makes of resources such as metafiction and intertextuality to portray female universe and present new family models. His cinematographic work Todo sobre mi madre is taken as an example to analyse the mechanisms of metafiction throughout the film, the role played by the main female characters and the intertexts introduced from different artistic fields. The results show a reflection on creative act; a new way of narrating facts, where fiction anticipates the reality of the film; and a family model different from the traditional one. The intertexts, in addition to typify the characters, take on a new meaning and present a motherhood that has little or nothing to do with the biological.