 .The tone of "All About My Mother" has the heart-on-the-sleeve emotions of soap opera, but it is completely sincere and by no means camp".Wesley Morris of the "San Francisco Examiner" called the film "a romantically labyrinthine tribute that piles layers of inter-textual shout-outs to "All About Eve", Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca and Alfred Hitchcock, and beautifully assesses the nature of facades .