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Volver, Sony Pictures Classics ; Ministerio de Cultura ; Consejeria de Cultura de Castilla-La Mancha ; con la participación de TVE ; y Canal+ España ; El Deseo presenta un film de Almodóvar ; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar ; productor ejecutivo, Agustín Almodóvar ; producida por Esther García

spa

videorecording

MPAA rating: Rated R; some sexual content and language

Volver

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Sony Pictures Classics ; Ministerio de Cultura ; Consejeria de Cultura de Castilla-La Mancha ; con la participación de TVE ; y Canal+ España ; El Deseo presenta un film de Almodóvar ; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar ; productor ejecutivo, Agustín Almodóvar ; producida por Esther García

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Sony Pictures classics

The central focus 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

Cleaning the graves -- Aunt Paula -- Augustina -- Paco lost another job -- Paula's trouble -- Opportunity and a loss -- Freezing Paco -- Sudden opportunity -- Seeing ghosts -- Mother in the trunk -- Three women and a freezer -- Mother, the Russian assistant -- Close call -- Who's my father? -- Wrap party -- Restaurant for sale -- Agustina's wish -- Heart to heart -- How to get rid of your man -- Mothers and fathers -- Where's the Russian? -- Agustina on TV -- Raimunda's surprise -- Daughter's tears -- What really happened -- Family without men -- One knows what the other seeks -- Closure

adult

live action

Volver, Sony Pictures Classics; Culture Ministry ; Ministry of Culture of Castilla-La Mancha; with the participation of TVE; and Canal + Spain; El Deseo presents a film by Almodóvar; script and direction, Pedro Almodóvar; executive producer, Agustín Almodóvar; produced by Esther García, [DVD] /, eng