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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396152830
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 2654
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
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Product Description:
From two-time Academy Award庐-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 漏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
Amazon.com:
Spanish for 'Coming Back,' Volver is a return to the all-female format of All About My Mother. Unlike Pedro Almod贸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茅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帽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贸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贸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. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - pedro
great blu-ray disc, every almodovar movie has always something magical and this one has it too.
Rating: - Glad I finally came back to see this...
I finally got around to watching this movie after years of procrastinating and choosing something else on a visit to the rental store or when shuffling through previewed movies somewhere. I read the many reviews and clearly am not a student of the films of Almod贸var, his influences and tendencies, Spanish cinema, or even much of Pen茅lope Cruz. I don't know if that disqualifies me to discuss my thoughts on this movie, but I thought it was good and am glad I picked it up.
The dvd back cover describes the movie as "hilarious" and "comedic" and I am truly clueless as to how anyone could use those adjectives to describe a movie that deals with incest, murder, abuse, and cancer just for openers. Talk about misleading...
Still, I enjoyed the movie and found the mysterious and at times disturbing story to keep my interest. The actors did a wonderful job and I was impressed with Cruz who I'd only seen in the horrid Vanilla Sky and in the disappointing Blow. She has to carry the movie and through the conclusion of the movie when all things are explained, I came to understand her brusque demeanor. Additionally, the scenery between Madrid and La Mancha was picaresque and a nice introduction to a country I have longed to visit.
The extras on my copy had interviews with Cruz, Almod贸var, and Carmen Maura. I noted one reviewer complained about the subtitles being choppy but my copy was smooth and without interruptions.
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Rating: - Gardel and Lepera live in Almodovar's "Volver"
Carlos Gardel was a very popular tango singer during the late twenties and early thirties in Argentina. Lost to Hispanics due to a tragic airplane accident at Medellin's (Colombia) airport, he became almost inmediately a myth of the Spanish cult of the dead; and is one of his famous songs Volver, turned into "rumba flamenca" and performed by Penelope Cruz in one of the scenes of this sentimental movie, which gives to it the main title.
Full of references to the convention, and with characters taken maybe from reality or maybe from Latin television soap operas,[many references to TV programs are present and even a recreation of a popular and actual one in Spain] Volver is an ironic, humorous, and typical Almodovar's farce whose roots may go backwards to very old techniques of Spanish culture.
Rating:  - Volver
Me being a latino i was in the mode for a spanish movie so when i picked up volver it blew me out of the water. the story is great and the actors are superb. nothing is overdone or for that matter underdone. i really enjoyed and would recommend this for anyone no matter ethnicity
Rating: - Great film...great performance.
Oustanding performance by Penelope Cruz. I especially enjoyed the scene with her singing. The story is both horrific and terrific at the same time. Even though there is tragedy the way the women are supportive of each other is admirable. Women need to be more like this in the real world.
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