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Release Date: 2007

Cast: Neus Sanz, María Isabel Díaz, Carmen Maura, Carlos Blanco, Leandro Rivera, Chus Lampreave, Penélope Cruz, Lola Dueñas, Antonio de la Torre, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Carlos García Cambero

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Crime, Comedy, Tragicomedy, World Cinema, Comedy-Drama, Mystery, Crime Fiction

Volver ( /ˌvɒlˈvɛər/; Spanish: "to come back", pronounced: [bolˈβer]) is a 2006 Spanish thriller film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up... MORE

Volver ( /ˌvɒlˈvɛər/; Spanish: "to come back", pronounced: [bolˈβer]) is a 2006 Spanish thriller film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends. The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret (1995), where it features as a novel which is rejected for publication but is stolen to form the screenplay of a film named The Freezer. Drawing inspiration from the Italian neorealism of the late 1940s to early 1950s and the work of pioneering directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Volver addresses themes like sexual abuse, loneliness and death, mixing the genres of farce, tragedy, melodrama, and magic realism. Set in the La Mancha region, Almodovar's place of birth, the filmmaker cited LESS