Volver

4.00
    Volver
    2006

    Synopsis

    While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter's murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.

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    Cast

    • Penélope CruzRaimunda
    • Carmen MauraIrene
    • Lola DueñasSole
    • Blanca PortilloAgustina
    • Yohana CoboPaula
    • Chus LampreaveTía Paula
    • Antonio de la TorrePaco
    • Carlos BlancoEmilio
    • María Isabel Díaz LagoRegina
    • Neus SanzInés

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Newsweek

      The great Spanish director's fourth triumph in a row--following "All About My Mother," "Talk to Her" and "Bad Education"--Volver (which means "coming back") flows effortlessly between peril and poignancy, the real and the surreal, even life and death.
    • 90

      Salon

      Part noir-comedy, part ghost story, but it's mostly a potent reflection on how where we come from shapes us, in ways we can't understand until we've been away for a long, long while.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      It's very difficult to mesh fantasy with reality, but with great charm and a light touch, Almodovar shows exactly how it should be done.
    • 90

      Variety

      Peopled with superbly drawn, attractive characters smoothly integrated into a well-turned, low-tricks plotline, Volver may rep Almodovar's most conventional piece to date, but it is also his most reflective, a subdued, sometimes intense and often comic homecoming that celebrates the pueblo and people that shaped his imagination.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Almodóvar isn't what he used to be (who is?), but he's a master of the medium nevertheless, deploying color and light and shadow not merely to express emotions but to tap into ours, directing the blood flow of the audience as much as he directs the movie.
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Before it loses its fizz--maybe two thirds of the way through--Volver offers the headiest pleasures imaginable.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Although Volver has a tendency to stray too far down tangential paths, it is ultimately satisfying.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      The movie opens as borderline Hitchcock, echoing the tone of the filmmaker's bravura "Bad Education" (2004), and then turns into a kind of overly conceptualized Tennessee Williams.

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