2006 · drama · comedy
Volver
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar2h 1m2006
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Our read: Volver (2006) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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“You want Almodóvar's Spanish women carrying family secrets with dark wit.”
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