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Volver

2006, Movie, 2h 1min

Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER is set in Madrid’s lively working-class neighborhoods, where three generations of women survive wind, fire, and even death, thanks to goodness, audacity, and a limitless vitality. They are Raimunda (Penélope Cruz), who is married to an unemployed laborer and has a teenage daughter (Yohana Cobo); Sole (Lola Dueñas), her sister, a hairdresser; and the mother of both (Carmen Maura), who died in a fire along with her husband. The presence of the mother, whose reappearance after her death seems to arise out of a need to fix the situations she couldn’t resolve in life, gradually becomes a comfort to her daughters as well as her grandchild. The female ensemble together was awarded the best actress prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

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Reviews

Critic Helen O'Hara

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Penélope Cruz gives a startlingly good turn as put-upon housewife and breadwinner Raimunda.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Roger Ebert

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It is refreshing to see Cruz acting in the culture and language that is her own.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Keith Phipps

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Almodóvar is still one of the few directors worth watching just for how he uses color on the screen. But the pleasures have always run much deeper, and now they run deeper still.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love to women’s congress and fortitude. A delightful blend of melodrama and comedy...

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup

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Vi finder både den komiske realisme fra de tidlige år og melodramaet fra 90’erne – nu garneret med klare elementer af thriller.

Read full review at Cinemazone

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In the bustling streets of Madrid, a young mother named Raimunda is trying to make a living and protect her daughter from her abusive father. But when her mother's ghost appears to her, Raimunda is forced to confront her past and the secrets she thought she had left behind in her hometown. As her mother's spirit lingers, Raimunda's life becomes intertwined with the world of the dead, and she must find a way to reconcile her past and present. A powerful and poignant tale of family, love, and loss, Volver is a haunting exploration of the bonds that tie us together, both in life and beyond.