Volver
by Pedro Almod?var
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Actor: Blanca Portillo, Carmen Maura, Lola Due?as, Pen?lope Cruz, Yohana CoboDirector: Pedro Almod?var
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Volver
Movie Review: pedro
Summary: 4 Stars
great blu-ray disc, every almodovar movie has always something magical and this one has it too.
Summary of Volver
Spanish for "Coming Back," Volver is a return to the all-female format of All About My Mother. Unlike Pedro Almod?var's previous two pictures, the story revolves around a group of women in Madrid and his native La Mancha. (The cast received a collective best actress award at Cannes.) Raimunda (a zaftig Pen?lope Cruz) is the engine powering this heartfelt, yet humorous vehicle. When husband Paco (Antonio de la Torre) is murdered, Raimunda makes like Mildred Pierce to deflect attention away from daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo). After telling everyone the lout has left, she struggles to conceal his body. The other women in her life all have secrets of their own. Her sister, Sole (Lola Due?as), for instance, has taken in their mother, Irene (a sprightly Carmen Maura). Since Irene perished in a fire, is this person a ghost or simply a woman who looks like her? Then there's their childhood friend, Agustina (Blanca Portillo), who is desperate to find out why her mother disappeared after the blaze. Was she responsible? Almod?var deftly blends the ghost story with the murder mystery in his tribute to the Italian neo-realist films of the 1950s. The resilient Raimunda is a throwback to the earthy heroines of Sophia Loren and Anna Magnani. The latter appears in Luchino Visconti's Bellissima, which shows up on Sole's television one night (thus confirming the link). If Almod?var's 16th feature lacks the emotional punch of the more audacious Talk to Her, it's less heavy-handed than Bad Education and Cruz is a revelation. --Kathleen C. FennessyFrom two-time Academy Award?-winner Pedro Almod var (2003 Best Original Screenplay Talk to Her; 2000 Best Foreign Language Film All About My Mother) comes VOLVER a comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life™s most outrageous tribulations. A luminous Pen ?lope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses including Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls™ departed mother Irene (Maura) has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula™s home. When Irene appears to Sole she explains that she has returned to set right her daughters™ troubled lives and reveal shocking secrets that will impact everyone! Raimunda has "female troubles" of her own least of which is a corpse in the freezer! Winner of numerous film festival and critics™ awards VOLVER is a hilarious tale of love loss and forgiveness.System Requirements:Run Time: 121 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396152830 Manufacturer No: 15283
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