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Volver / El Deseo presenta ; un film de Almodóvar ; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar ; producida por Esther García.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Spain--Madrid--Drama.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Sisters--Spain--Madrid--Drama.
- Sisters.
- Women--Spain--Madrid--Drama.
- Women.
- Families--Spain--Madrid--Drama.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (121 minutes)
- Other Title:
- To return
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Sony Pictures Classics, 2006.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish ; with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- From two-time Academy Award-winner Pedro Almodóvar (2003, Best Original Screenplay, Talk to Her, 2000, Best Foreign Language Film, All About My Mother), comes Volver, a comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life's most outrageous tribulations. A luminous Penélope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses, including Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago ... or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls' departed mother, Irene (Maura), has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula's home. When Irene appears to Sole, she explains that she has returned to set right her daughter's troubled lives and reveal shocking secrets that will impact, everyone! Raimunda has "female troubles" of her own, least of which is a corpse in the freezer! Winner of numerous film festival and critics' awards, Volver is a hilarious tale of love, loss and forgiveness.
- Participant:
- Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre, Carlos Blanco.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 03, 2017).
- Nominated 2007 Academy Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Nominated 2007 Golden Globes, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Nominated 2007 Golden Globes, Best Foreign Language Film
- Nominated 2007 BAFTA Awards, Best Film not in the English Language
- Nominated 2007 BAFTA Awards, Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Won 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress, To the female ensemble cast
- Won 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Best Screenplay
- Nominated 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or
- 2nd place 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Best Actress
- 2nd place 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Best Foreign Film
- 2nd place 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
- OCLC:
- 971284130
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