Volver (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 3, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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User Ratings: 71,973
4 stars out of 4 -- Cruz vindicates herself in dazzling style as a domestic goddess par excellence.
Sight and Sound
Sep 1, 2006
Rating: 4.5/5 -- At the center of this hectic universe, [Cruz] never misses a step and may even elevate what Almodovar originally conceived.
Film Threat
Jun 22, 2008
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Pedro Almodóvar whipstitches a movie from patches of those mother-daughter melodramas Mildred Pierce, Bellissima and Two Women and makes it seamless and original, funny as it is fierce, breathtaking as it is life-affirming.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dec 28, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- It's clever and entertaining. It's marvelously deft, but never daffy. It works well enough, despite feeling like the most conventional film this great, envelope-pushing Spanish director has ever made.
Orlando Sentinel
Jan 19, 2007
Almodóvar himself once again returning, with delicious self-consciousness, to an old plot. . . and reconfiguring it, as he does here even more radically than in his other recent films, in the subtle but provocative manner of his mature style. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 18, 2017
It draws you in, invites you to linger and makes you eager to return. It offers something better than realism.
New York Times
Nov 3, 2006
Rating: A -- Beautiful performances, a refreshing story, and spot-on comedic timing make this a wonderful movie. Full Review
Reel Talk Online
Sep 12, 2017

Product Description:

Pedro Almodóvar, the Oscar-winning writer-director of such international successes as TALK TO HER and WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, returns to his hometown of La Mancha in Spain for the tender VOLVER. Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) is trying to keep her family together despite her husband's (Antonio de la Torre) inability to keep his job; when a terrible incident occurs at home, Raimunda covers it up in order to protect her daughter, Paula (Yohana Cobo). Meanwhile, Raimunda's sister, Sole (Lola Dueñas), believes that their mother, Irene (Carmen Maura), has come back from the dead; Sole even has the resurrected Irene working in the illegal hair salon she has set up in her apartment. Sole and their neighbor Agustina (Blanca Portillo), who had been taking care of their aged aunt (Chus Lampreave), try to keep this secret from Raimunda, with both funny and heartbreaking results--and the revealing of yet more secrets.

Once again Almodóvar, who won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes for VOLVER, displays his unique talent for creating fascinating female characters in this intricate study of three generations of women. The acting is a tour de force all around; the cast of VOLVER--which means "to return"--is a bit of a homecoming for Almodóvar as well, as he's previously worked with Cruz (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER), Dueñas (TALK TO HER), and especially Maura (many times, including MATADOR and LAW OF DESIRE, but not in 17 years). VOLVER is a deeply personal, emotionally moving story of a very different kind of family, told by a master filmmaker at the peak of his talent.

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  • UPC: 043396190580
  • Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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