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Volver

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Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Produced by Esther García (producer)
Agustín Almodóvar (executive)
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Penélope Cruz
Carmen Maura
Lola Dueñas
Blanca Portillo
Yohana Cobo
Chus Lampreave
Music by Alberto Iglesias
Cinematography Jose Luis Alcaine
Editing by José Salcedo
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s) Flag of Spain March 17, 2006
Flag of the United Kingdom 25 August 2006
Flag of the United States 3 October 2006 (NYC and L.A. only)
Flag of Australia 21 December 2006
Running time 121 min. Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (ˈpeð̞ɾo almoˈð̞oβ̞̞aɾ kaβ̞aˈʝeɾo (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (ˈpeð̞ɾo almoˈð̞oβ̞̞aɾ kaβ̞aˈʝeɾo (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish Penélope Cruz Sánchez (pe̞ˈne̞ˑlo̞pe̞ ˈkɾuθ̟ ˈs̺änʲʨe̞θ̟ born April 28 1974 better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress Carmen García Maura (born September 15, 1945, in Madrid) is a Spanish Actress. Lola Dueñas' ( October 6, 1971) is a Spanish actress She is the daughter of Nicolás Dueñas and studied in the Institut del Teatre Blanca Portillo (born June 15 1963) is a Spanish actress Career Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions Yohana Cobo' (born Madrid, January 12, 1985) is a Spanish film and television actress Chus Lampreave' ( Madrid, December 11 1930) is a Spanish actress Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi (born San Sebastián, 1955 is a Spanish composer José Luis Alcaine (born 26 December 1938) is a Spanish born Cinematographer. José Salcedo is a Spanish film editor with over 120 films to his credit as well as 17 nominations and wins of film-making awards Sony Pictures Classics is one of two specialty film divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the other being Screen Gems (which produces more genre-specific fare Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Country Spain
Language Spanish
Budget €9,400,000
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Volver (Spanish: "to return" (specifically: to return to a place), pronounced [bolˈβ̞eɾ]) is a 2006 Spanish film by director Pedro Almodóvar. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The year 2006 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (ˈpeð̞ɾo almoˈð̞oβ̞̞aɾ kaβ̞aˈʝeɾo (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish

Volver was one of the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or ( English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. The 2006 Cannes Film Festival ran from May 17, 2006 to May 28, 2006. It eventually won two awards: Best Actress (shared by the six main actresses) and Best Screenplay. The film's premiere was held on March 10, 2006, in Puertollano, Spain, where the filming had taken place. Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing Puertollano is an industrial city in Ciudad Real Province, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Synopsis

The film opens in a cemetery full of women cleaning and tending to their families' gravestones. Two sisters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Dueñas) and Raimunda's daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) are cleaning the grave of their parents who had died in a tragic fire. Penélope Cruz Sánchez (pe̞ˈne̞ˑlo̞pe̞ ˈkɾuθ̟ ˈs̺änʲʨe̞θ̟ born April 28 1974 better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress Lola Dueñas' ( October 6, 1971) is a Spanish actress She is the daughter of Nicolás Dueñas and studied in the Institut del Teatre Yohana Cobo' (born Madrid, January 12, 1985) is a Spanish film and television actress The events which had occurred on the night of the fire are only gradually revealed, but are central to the plot of the film.

After their Aunt Paula dies, Sole returns to the village for the funeral. Agustina (Blanca Portillo), Aunt Paula’s neighbour whose mother had disappeared without a trace three years ago, tells Sole that she has heard the aunt talking with Sole's departed mother, Irene. Blanca Portillo (born June 15 1963) is a Spanish actress Career Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions Agustina helps Sole, who is “terrified of the dead,” to avoid seeing the corpse at the funeral. In her aunt’s house, Sole encounters the ghost of her mother, who had “died in the arms of her husband” in the fire. Arriving home, she hears a knocking sound from the rear of her car, and opens the car and again encounters her mother's ghost. She has brought luggage and intends to stay with Sole for a while.

Sole, managing to restrain her fright, talks with her departed mother Irene -- while giving her a haircut and hair dye job in the hair salon she operates in her apartment -- and she tries to find out why she has returned, asking if she has something she has left undone in her life, causing her to return.

She is told that the mother does have issues to resolve; it is later revealed that these issues revolve around the reasons why Raimunda hates her and why she is afraid to reveal herself to Raimunda. In the meantime, she assists Sole in shampooing and rinsing customers, posing as a Russian woman who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish -- but who can understand bodily gestures well.

Meanwhile Raimunda and her daughter have a different death to cope with. Paula has stabbed her father, Paco, when he attempted to force himself upon her, telling Paula that he “is not her father. ” Paco’s corpse is cleaned and wrapped in a blanket, which Raimunda and Paula drag to a nearby unused restaurant. Raimunda, who has been entrusted with the keys to the establishment in order to help the owner lease it, hides the body in the restaurant’s deep freeze. This leads to her meeting someone from a film crew seeking a place to feed his crew of thirty people. Raimunda strikes a deal to cater for the crew, and finds herself suddenly in the restaurant business.

In a quiet mother-daughter moment with Raimunda, Paula finds out that Paco -- whose corpse still lies hidden in the freezer -- was not in fact her father. Raimunda promises to tell her the whole story, not now but “en otro momento” ("another time").

Raimunda gets a phone call from Agustina, who tells Raimunda that she is in the city because she has gone to the hospital. Agustina has just learned that she has cancer and wants Raimunda to come visit her. Raimunda protests that she is busy, but eventually makes the trip to the hospital. While she is there, Agustina asks her if she has seen her mother’s ghost. Raimunda has not, but Agustina asks her to find out from her mother -- if she should return -- about the fate of Agustina's own mother, who had disappeared three years ago without a trace.

Later on, Raimunda undertakes the task of disposing of Paco’s remains -- leaving Paula with Sole, renting a van and transporting the freezer to a convenient spot by the river Júcar, 180 kilometres away. The Júcar is a river on the Iberian Peninsula of Spain. The river runs for approximately 509 km from the Universales Mountains to Cullera During this time Paula meets her departed grandmother and grows close to her.

The next night, Agustina comes to visit the restaurant to renew her request to Raimunda to ask her mother’s ghost about her own mother's whereabouts. It is then that she reveals two startling secrets: that Raimunda's father and Agustina’s mother were having an affair and that Agustina's mother disappeared on the same day as the Raimunda’s parents died in the fire.

Sole reveals to Raimunda that her mother has shown herself to her, and that she is in fact watching television in the next room with Paula. Raimunda, obviously driven by mixed emotions flees with Paula, but is eventually urged by her daughter to go return to Soledad’s apartment and have a talk with her mother. Raimunda, less credulous than Sole, asks her mother to tell her the truth -- is she really alive, and not a dead spirit? Admitting that she was not in fact killed in the fateful fire, Irene reveals everything.

In a revealing conversation between Raimunda and her mother, we learn that the reason for their estrangement is that Raimunda was sexually abused and impregnated by her father, giving birth to Paula; thus, Paula is Raimunda’s daughter and also her sister. Raimunda had been angry with her mother for never noticing and ending this abuse. Irene tells Raimunda that she was angry with herself when she found out. Irene explains that, between her husband’s affair with Agustina’s mother and his abuse of Raimunda, she had started the fire that had killed him. The ashes that had been presumed to be Irene’s were, in fact, the ashes of Agustina's mother. Because she had been frightened of being caught, Irene had hidden for years in her sister’s house, helping to care for her when she lost the ability to look after herself. Taking advantage of the superstitious nature of the community, who were accustomed to tales of the dead returning, she had passed rare sightings of herself off as "un fantasma," a ghost.

The film ends with the family reunited at Aunt Paula’s house. Irene reveals her presence to Agustina, who believes Irene to be a ghost, and cares for her as her condition worsens-- saying to Raimunda that it was the least that she could do after killing Agustina's mother.

Almodóvar says of the story that “it is precisely about death. . . More than about death itself, the screenplay talks about the rich culture that surrounds death in the region of La Mancha, where I was born. La Mancha is an arid fertile elevated plateau (610 m or 2000 ft It is about the way (not tragic at all) in which various female characters, of different generations, deal with this culture. ”[1]

Cast

Actor Role
Penélope Cruz Raimunda
Carmen Maura Irene
Lola Dueñas Soledad (Sole)
Blanca Portillo Agustina
Yohana Cobo Paula
Chus Lampreave Tía Paula
Antonio de la Torre Paco
Carlos Blanco Emilio

Critical response

The film received rave reviews when it was released in Spain. Penélope Cruz Sánchez (pe̞ˈne̞ˑlo̞pe̞ ˈkɾuθ̟ ˈs̺änʲʨe̞θ̟ born April 28 1974 better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress Carmen García Maura (born September 15, 1945, in Madrid) is a Spanish Actress. Lola Dueñas' ( October 6, 1971) is a Spanish actress She is the daughter of Nicolás Dueñas and studied in the Institut del Teatre Blanca Portillo (born June 15 1963) is a Spanish actress Career Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions Yohana Cobo' (born Madrid, January 12, 1985) is a Spanish film and television actress Chus Lampreave' ( Madrid, December 11 1930) is a Spanish actress Carlos Blanco (born in Coslada, Madrid, on March 7, 1986) is a Spanish Egyptologist and Philosopher, known for Fotogramas, the country's top film magazine, gave it a five-star rating[2]. It also received a standing ovation when it was screened as part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Screenplay award as well as the award for Best Actress -- which was shared by the six stars of the film. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The Best Screenplay Award (Prix du scénario is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. The Best Actress Award ( French: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition, the film received two nominations at the 2006 Golden Globes: Best Actress for Penélope Cruz as well as Best Foreign Language Film. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 Penélope Cruz Sánchez (pe̞ˈne̞ˑlo̞pe̞ ˈkɾuθ̟ ˈs̺änʲʨe̞θ̟ born April 28 1974 better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress Cruz also received Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actress. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation The Screen Actors Guild Awards are an annual award given by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG to recognize outstanding performances by members

The film has received a Certified Fresh rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes, scoring 91% on the site's "Tomatometer", as well as 91% from the users on the site. Rotten Tomatoes is a Website devoted to reviews information and news of Movies.

Top ten lists

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2006. [3]

  • 2nd - Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
  • 3rd - Glenn Kenny, Premiere
  • 3rd - Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
  • 3rd - Richard Corliss, TIME magazine
  • 3rd - Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  • 4th - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
  • 4th - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
  • 4th - Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter
  • 5th - Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
  • 6th - Claudia Puig, USA Today
  • 6th - Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
  • 7th - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
  • 8th - A. The Austin Chronicle is an Alternative weekly, Tabloid -style Newspaper published every Thursday in Austin Texas, United Premiere was an American and New York City -based film Magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, commonly abbreviated locally as the Dem-Gaz, Demgaz or DemoZet, is a daily newspaper published in Little Saloncom, part of Salon Media Group ( often just called Salon, is an online Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published The Hollywood Reporter is a major trade publication of the Film industry in the United States. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D USA TODAY is a national American daily Newspaper published by the Gannett Company. The AV Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion eaters. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed O. Scott, The New York Times

General top ten

Awards and nominations

Box office

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As of January 22, 2007, the film had grossed $12,241,181 at the Spanish Box Office. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. [5]

Music

Tango by Carlos Gardel Volver is converted to flamenco and is sung in the movie with the voice of Estrella Morente and lip synced by Penélope Cruz. Carlos Gardel ( 11 December 1887 /1890 1 - 24 June 1935 Medellín, Colombia) is Flamenco is a Spanish term that refers both to a musical genre known for its intricate rapid passages and a dance genre characterized by its audible footwork Estrella Morente (Estrella de la Aurora Morente Carbonell was born on August 14 1980 in Las Gabias Granada. Lip-sync or Lip-synch (short for lip Synchronization) is a technical term for matching lip movements with voice

The dance tune playing at the party prior to Raimunda's lip syncing is called "A good thing" by English three-piece indie-dance combo Saint Etienne. Saint Etienne are an English Indie dance act fronted by Sarah Cracknell (born April 12, 1967, Chelmsford, Essex

References

  1. ^ A Volver Diary by Pedro Almodóvar
  2. ^ Fotogramas
  3. ^ Metacritic: 2006 Film Critic Top Ten Lists. Metacritic. Metacritic is a Website that collates reviews of music Albums games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and Books. Retrieved on 2008-01-08. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army
  4. ^ Volver (2006)
  5. ^ Volver (2006) - International Box Office Results

External links

Awards
Preceded by
La Vida Secreta de las Palabras		 Goya Award for Best Picture
2007		 Succeeded by
La Soledad
Preceded by
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada		 Cannes Film Festival
Prix du scénario
2006		 Succeeded by
The Edge of Heaven
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