| ORIGINAL TITLE |
Volver |
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| COUNTRY |
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| DIRECTOR |
Pedro Almodóvar |
| SCREENWRITER |
Pedro Almodóvar |
| COMPOSER |
Alberto Iglesias |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
José Luis Alcaine |
| CAST |
Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Chus Lampreave, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Antonio de la Torre, María Isabel Díaz, Neus Sanz, Leandro Rivera, Carlos Blanco, Pepa Aniorte, Yolanda Ramos |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
El Deseo S.A. |
| AWARDS |
2006: Nominated for Oscar: Best Actress (Penélope Cruz)
2006: 2 Nominations for Golden Globe: Best Actress of Drama, Foreign Language Picture
2006: 5 Goya Awards, including Best Movie, Director and Actress (Cruz). 14 Nominations
2006: Cannes Film Festival: Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Female Cast)
2006: European Film Awards: Best Director, Best Actress (Cruz)
2006: 2 Nominations for BAFTA Awards: Best Actress (Cruz) and Foreign Language Film
2006: Cesar Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture
2006: David of Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best European Movie
2006: National Board of Review (NBR): Best Foreign Film
2007: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Runner-up for Best Foreign picture and Actress
2006: 2 Nominations Critics' Choice Awards: Best Actress, Foreign Language Film |
| GENRE |
Drama. Comedy | Melodrama. Family Relationships |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
Three generations of women survive easterly wind, fire, madness, superstition and even death through goodness, lies and an unlimited vitality. They are: Raimunda, married to an unemployed worker, and her teenager daughter. Sole, her sister, who earns her living as hairdresser. And their mother, dead in a burning, with her husband. This character comes as an apparition first to her sister and then to Sole, even though the ones she had unsettled affairs with were Raimunda and her village neighbour, Agustina. ‘Volver’ is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. ‘Volver’ shatters all clichés of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity. |
| PRO REVIEWS |
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"'Volver,' full of surprises and reversals, unfolds with breathtaking ease and self-confidence. (...) it is no less the work of a master." (A. O. Scott: The New York Times)
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"A movie that leaps off the screen to take its place in your dreams (...) You do not want to miss this one. Rating: **** (out of four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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