Volver [meaning 'to come back'] is a 2006 Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar starring one of my favorite actresses Penelope Cruz, who was nominated in 2007 for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in the film. This nomination made her the second Spanish actress ever to receive a nomination in this category. Yes, the entire film is in Spanish, but you can turn on the subtitles on the DVD.
The film centers around Raimunda, Penelope Cruz, and her sister Sole [short for soledad, or loneliness]. Raimunda finds herself concealing the murder of her low life husband after he makes sexual advances on their daughter, and Sole finds herself confronted with the ghost of their mother, who died three years prior to the beginning of the film in a tragic fire. Details of the fire slowly unfold through out the film.
Pedro Almodóvar says of the story that “it is precisely about death...more than about death itself, the screenplay talks about the rich culture that surrounds death in the region of La Mancha, where I was born. It is about the way [not tragic at all] in which various female characters, of different generations, deal with this culture.” The plot of Volver follows the plot of a movie-within-the-movie based on the main character's novel in Almodóvar's 1995 film La flor de mi Secreto.
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