Volver
DVD - 2007
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 wo...man pulled in fifty directions, making a life for her family, reveling in every emotion but self-pity.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Comedy films
Ghost films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Culver City, CA :
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
[2007]
- Language
- Spanish
English - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Originally produced as a Spanish motion picture in 2006.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz [audio feature]; Making of "Volver" [featurette] (8 min.); Interview with Pedro Almodóvar [featurette] (10 min.); Interview with Penélope 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.). - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; Region 1; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.35:1; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Rated R; some sexual content and language.
- Awards
- Cannes Film Festival, 2006: Best Actress (To the female ensemble cast); Best Screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar).
Winner, Goya Awards for Mejor Película (Best Film), Mejor Director (Best Director)--Pedro Almodóvar, Mejor Actriz Principal (Best Lead Actress)--Penélope Cruz, Mejor Actriz de Reparto (Best Supporting Actress)--Carmen Maura, Mejor Música Original (Best Original Score)--Alberto Iglesias, 2007 ; Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress--Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Best Screenplay--Pedro Almodóvar, 2006. - Production Credits
- Director of photography, José Luis Alcaine ; camera operator, Joaquin Manchado ; editor, José Salcedo ; music, Alberto Iglesias.
- ISBN
- 9781424819515