Volver is a hard film to summarize. Though the story is fairly simple, and I use simple freely, the movie has a lot going on with all of its characters. This never, however, harms the film. In fact, Volver is only made better by the quirky characters Pedro Almodóvar, the film’s director and writer, puts into it. Even though the story is indeed creative, it is the characters that he puts in that make this movie, not only memorable, but amazingly so.
The film is a mix of fun black comedy and real emotion. Almodóvar expertly blends the two for a truly unique kind of movie that has a truly unique story to tell. After Raimunda, played to perfection by Penelope Cruz, discovers that her daughter has killed her father after he made a pass at her, Raimunda decides she will clean up the mess, both figuratively and quite literally, for her daughter. Then the movie really gets strange, not that it already wasn’t. Raimunda’s sister claims she has seen their mother’s ghost, in fact, the viewer can see that she now lives and cares for it. From this film it’s easy to see that the Spanish filmmaker doesn’t fear getting into unique and bizarre plot lines. This, in fact, is only another great thing about the film, its originality. Never has a film, so strangely told, been so much fun to watch. Well, at least, since Almodóvar’s last film that is. Though the movie is in Spanish with English subtitles, which may put some people off, the great script is not lost in translation, thanks to the performances of the leading ladies and the meticulous direction of the mind behind the film.
Volver is directed and written by Pedro Almodóvar. The film is rated R for some sexual content and language.
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[1] Posted by: danielle90 | February 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pmu the danielle who goes to st.andrew’s?
[2] Posted by: bro_indy | February 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pmi loved this movie
[3] Posted by: charianna | February 17th, 2008 at 11:11 pm4226b
[4] Posted by: joann98531 | February 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pmI saw it in my Spanish class and actually really liked it. It was really wierd and dark and I liked that a lot.
[5] Posted by: MissDonJuan | February 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pmA lot.
[6] Posted by: MissDonJuan | February 28th, 2008 at 10:31 pmthank you all for commenting.
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[7] Posted by: theJamexican | April 24th, 2008 at 8:53 ami should say to those of you who actually talked about the film.
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[8] Posted by: theJamexican | April 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am