Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Call Number: DVD00570

by Agustin Almodóvar; Esther García; Pedro Almodóvar; Penélope Cruz; Carmen Maura; Lola Dueñas; Blanca Portillo; Yohana Cobo; Chus Lampreave; Antonio de la Torre; Carlos Blanco; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Spain. Ministerio de Cultura.; Televisión Española.; Canal+ España (Firm); Deseo, S.A.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Classics : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2007.

Notes: Originally released in 2006 (121 mins.); edition includes commentary, making of and director and cast interviews; Nominated for one 2007 Academy Award;

Summary: The central character 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.

OCLC #: 80569943