Cinema as a dialogue partner: "All about my mother" and the discussion on gender, sexuality and diversity

Abstract

In view of Bakhtinian studies, we regard the filmic object as an important dialogical partner. Thus, when recognizing cinema as a discourse producer, film analysis appears as an element of relevance in contemporary society, since our contemporary societies are bombarded, daily, by eddies of images. In this way, we chose the film All about my mother, by spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, as the driving force behind reflections on gender, sexuality, and diversity. It is through otherness, which takes effect through the recognition of the filmic object as the Other with whom we dialogue, that such reflections find fertile soil to germinate.