Volver (Spanish: Return) is a 2006 Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, of the. In the film stars Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura and Lola Dueñas. On theCannes film festival , the film won two awards: best actress and Best Screenplay. The film lasts 121 minutes. The title of the film has many connotations, but skips mainly on the geographic return of the Director and of the characters to their home region of La Mancha.
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The story is about three generations of women that the East wind, fire, madness and even death survive thanks to their goodness, lies and boundless vivacity.
Raimunda lives with her partner, Paco and teenage daughter Paula in a suburb of Madrid. Raimunda's older sister Sole illegal hair salon has a home and is single since her husband went off with a client. A few years earlier are the parents of Raimunda and Sole both on a night in a fire in their house died. Since that same night also happens to be the mother of Augustina disappeared without trace. Augustina is the neighbor of aunt Paula, the elderly aunt of Raimunda and Sole.
As Paco dies after he Paula has trying to edges to keep this secret for its surroundings try Raimundo, but that only supplies but confusion and misunderstandings on her with all his might attempt to Raimunda. ordinary life to sustain. She goes along with her daughter works as a substitute in a restaurant and hides the corpse there for a time in one of the freezers, until they end up on a secret place to bury know. Her past, however, does not let her alone.
Now the rumour going round that Raimunda's and Soles late mother Irene at several people appeared to is from the past. Irene would according to, inter alia, in the House of aunt Paula Augustina have been when who had just died. Raimunda's also appears to Sole mother with whom she is going to work if hairdressing Assistant. To hide her identity, she posed as a Russian. Augustina, now terminally ill, asks Raimunda or that to her mother Irene wants to ask everything to tell what she knows about Augustina's mother. Raimunda explains Augustina this for crazy.
Gradually the truth is clear: Irene is no spirit appearance but has all these years schuilgehouden after they themselves the House of her husband, who was cheating with the mother of Augustina, had fired.Then it shows also that Raimunda used to be is raped by her own father, has told her daughter Paula that Paco Paula's father was. Irene had two reasons for whole-heartedly to hate her husband.
Irene decides to for the dying Augustina. Augustina does not find out the truth.
Division Of Roles[Edit][]
- Penélope Cruz -Raimunda
- Carmen Maura -Irene
- Lola Dueñas -Sole
- Blanca Portillo -Agustina
- Yohana Cobo -Daughter Paula
- Chus Lampreave -Tía (aunt) Paula
- Antonio de la Torre -Paco
- Carlos Blanco -Emilio
- María Isabel Díaz -Regina (as Isabel Díaz)
- Nose Sanz -Inés (as Nieves Sanz Escobar)
- Leandro Rivera -Sidekick
- Yolanda Ramos -television presenter
- Carlos- Carlos García Cambero
Almodóvar did for his film appeal to actors he knew for a long time and sometimes the chicas Almodovar , Chus Lampreave, Carmen Maura were called: Penélope Cruz and Lola Dueñas. For Yohana Cobo, which when turning only 20 years Volver was, it was the first appearance in a film by Almodovar.
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Yohana Cobo in the role of Paula
Locations[Edit][]
- Granátula de Calatrava (Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha): the native village of Almodóvar, where the first scene of the movie is run, in the cemetery.
- Almagro (Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha): Almodóvar had already "La flor de mi secreto" turned. He creates there the fictional village Alcanfor de las Infantas (Camphor of the Infantes), to the village of his childhood. Camphor is a anafrodisatisch herb, which reduces the sexual urges. This is curious, as after the death of the husband of Raimunda none of the women are still a friend has and camphor to large intake as a poison works. One thinks to the scene where Raimunda refuses to make love with Paco and the scene in which Paula Paco kills because it has no sexual desire for the man she regards as her father. The choice of the village name is not accidental. With the term be infante in Spain not erfgerechtigde the children of the King. Almodóvar alludes here on the incest theme from the movie, as Paula the daughter and so the heiress is of Paco, and so a infante. The House of Agustina is in reality on the Plaza Mayor and the street where the houses of Agustina and tia Paula on look out, the Calle de Federico.
[4][5]The Júcar in Alarcón*La Mancha: municipalities Tébar, Vara de Rey and Atalaya del Canavate. The wind farm from the movie is located in Sisante and State in the movie icon for the boundary between the city and countryside, past and present, life and death. In Casas de Benitez is the place near the Rio Júcar, where Paco is buried. The river plays an important role in the film, as the Director for his best memories from childhood with the river.
- Madrid: district District Numancia in Puente de Vallecas, where Raimunda lives. The inhabitants of this district are in Madrid known for their mutual solidarity and protest readiness. This solidarity is several times in the movie (Raimunda that restaurant careful during the absence of Emilio, neighbors who deliver food for the times of the Raimunda production team, neighbors who help to move the refrigerator, Raimunda...) Bellas Vistas District ' in the district of Tetuán, where Sole lives, is a migrant neighborhood, especially of South Americans and Africans. In the film, referred the migrants in a conversation between Irene and Sole.
- Puertollano.
Music[Edit][]
The song that gives its name to the film, Volver is also the title of a nostalgic tango about exile, written by the Argentine poet Alfredo Le Pera in 1935 and sung by Carlos Gardel. Three month after the recording, the writer and singer died in a plane accident. The song will not be played for a long time for that reason on bals. In the film, the in flamenco style sung byEstrella Morente, which her agrees lends to Penélope Cruz.
The beginning credits of the film in the scene in which the women dig shine, will feature with the song Espigadoras (la Rosa Del Azafrán) Read. It lies at the origin of a zarzuela, or Spanish operetta, composed by Jacinto Guerrero Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández Shaw and written by and in the film sung by Conchita Panadés. The operetta is set in La Mancha, which takes us back to one of the main themes of the movie, namely the traditions of the region. The song is sung in the operetta in a scene in which the women plukkken the saffron threads , a laborious and strenuous work.
During the party at the end of the movie, comes the song A good thing of the group Saint Etienne. The chorus reads: "it's a good thing, the best thing, last thing you should have left behind. Out of nowhere, out there. It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone ". One can discern a link in with the death of Paco and the reaction of Raimunda.
Alberto Iglesias, who has been with Almodóvar had worked for La flor de mi secreto, Todo sobre mi madre, Hable con ella and La mala educación, wrote the original music for the filmVolver, which consists of 17 pieces: Titulos, Las vecinas, Dicen que la han visto, Irene bajo la cama, El año seco, Arrastran el cadaver, Paco congelado, Tema lloron, Dos and la furgoneta ', Irene y Agustina, Se aparece + Trabajo, Las vecinas (variacion), En el hospital, Ferreteria El polvo del tractor, bicicleta estatica and , La Comida casera.
Trivia[Edit][]
- Various elements from the movie (the fridge, the restaurant, the man who kills his mother in law) are also reflected in La flor de mi secreto. The role is played by the same actress, aunt Chus Lampreaveand she lives in the same House in the same village, as the mother of Leo in this movie.
- Penélope Cruz wears a stuffing to have larger thighs.
- In the long hours oftravelling with the women in the cemetery, is the main theme of the movie the same as in the movie ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? from 1984.
- Almodóvar always brings a quote from a movie in his films, a tribute to his passion for movies. In Volver is that the case in the scene in which Irene to the television looks, while the old Agustina is dying to see, and which is an extract of the Bellissima, directed by Luchino Visconti. The excerpt shows a father with his daughter on his knees, who tells her a story while the mother, played by Anna Magnani(the actress was left by her mother at birth) takes care of her hair and calls "give Daddy a kiss, Maddalena. I have you already told the story of Pinocchio? The nose of the boy grew as he lied to his father, who doll maker was.
- Penélope Cruz has to operate her breasts for this movie. In the film, is made when the mother her daughter asks if they all do something to let her bust has (and the daughter denies).
Awards[Edit][]
| Year | Festival | Price | Laureate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Cannes Film festival | Best actress | Penélope Cruz, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, |
| Best screenplay | Pedro Almodóvar | ||
| 2006 | Oscars | nomination of best actress | Penélope Cruz |
| 2006 | Golden Globe | Golden Globe Award nomination for best foreign film | Volver |
| Golden Globe Award nomination for best actress in a drama film | Penélope Cruz | ||
| 2006 | Goya | Goya by best film | Volver |
| Goya by Best Director | Pedro Almodóvar | ||
| Goya for best actress | Penélope Cruz | ||
| Goya for best original music | Alberto Iglesias | ||
| Best supporting actress Goya of | Carmen Maura | ||
| nomination for best supporting actress Goya of | Lola Dueñas | ||
| nomination for best supporting actress Goya of | Blanca Portillo | ||
| Malek Abdalsamad's nomination for best photography | José Luis Alcaine | ||
| Goya nomination for best original screenplay | Pedro Almodóvar | ||
| Goya nomination for best costumes | Sabine Daigeler | ||
| Goya nomination for best makeup and best hairstyle | Massimo Gattabrusi and Ana Lozano | ||
| Goya nomination for best production manager | Toni Novella | ||
| Goya nomination for best sound | Miguel Rejas | ||
| 2006 | César | nomination for César for best film | Volver |