Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Classics : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007].
Publication Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ;
ISBN
1424819512
Target Audience
Adult
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Awards Note
Winner, Goya Awards for Mejor Pelcula (Best Film), Mejor Director (Best Director)--Pedro Almodvar, Mejor Actriz Principal (Best Lead Actress)--Penlope Cruz, Mejor Actriz de Reparto (Best Supporting Actress)--Carmen Maura, Mejor Msica Original (Best Original Score)--Alberto Iglesias, 2007 ; Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress--Penlope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Best Screenplay--Pedro Almodvar, 2006.
(DVD)videorecording
Volver [DVD] (2007). Directed by Pedro Almodovar : Return
The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and speaks about her sister Irene as if she were still alive. When the aunt dies, some things change, many things return, and Raimunda's troubles become extremely complicated. She bustles through them with passionate determination, a hard-working woman pulled in fifty directions, making a life for her family, reveling in every emotion but self-pity.
General Note
Originally produced as a Spanish motion picture in 2006.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Pedro Almodvar and Penlope Cruz [audio feature]; Making of "Volver" [featurette] (8 min.); Interview with Pedro Almodvar [featurette] (10 min.); Interview with Penlope Cruz [featurette] (6 min.) Interview with Carmen Maura [featurette] (9 min.); AFI Fest 2006 Tribute to Penelope Cruz [featurette] (18 min.); Photo gallery [slide show]; Poster gallery [slide show]; Previews (13 min.).
Content Note
Cleaning the graves -- Aunt Paula -- Augustina -- Paco lost another job -- Paula's trouble -- Opportunity and a loss -- Freezing Paco -- Sudden opportunity -- Seeing ghosts -- Mother in the trunk -- Three women and a freezer -- Mother, the Russian assistant -- Close call -- Who's my father? -- Wrap party -- Restaurant for sale -- Agustina's wish -- Heart to heart -- How to get rid of your man -- Mothers and fathers -- Where's the Russian? -- Agustina on TV -- Raimunda's surprise -- Daughter's tears -- What really happened -- Family without men -- One knows what the other seeks -- Closure.