Volver
Return.
Return.
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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2006
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A resourcefull working-class woman living in Madrid gets her hands dirty in family secrets with the help of a teenage daughter and hairdresser sister.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
121 min
Release date:
17 Mar 2006
Country:
ES
Languages:
Spanish
Budget:
$9,400,000
Revenue:
$85,605,851
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 61 wins & 94 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Even if Volver sounds too high-concept for you, know that Almodovar is smart enough not to rest on laughs alone, extending his premise to dark, though occasionally tidy psychological territory.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
3 Feb 2007
fresh:
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.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Jan 2007
fresh:
Pedro Almodovar 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.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
28 Dec 2006
rotten:
The Return rattles its chains for a spell, but it doesn't linger -- it quickly leaves.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
22 Dec 2006
fresh:
Volver is rich, crazy, ambitious and filled with heaven and earth in a way that no other filmmaker can touch. It is a flawed beauty, but the beauty is so much more important than the flaws.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
22 Dec 2006