2006 Volver, Pedro Almodovar
with Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura
I state at once that Almodovar is a genius. It 's a popular genius, as it could be Billy Wilder. This has greatly influenced Almodovar, especially at the script level.
's the story of four women, between Madrid and La Mancha. From the past of these returns the ghost of the mother / grandmother dead, which seems to reveal something important to their daughters.
"Volver" is without doubt the best films of Almodovar. It 'was a difficult choice' bubble 'as' better', because I think he's one of the few directors to have the 'touch', namely that whatever he does, if not a masterpiece it is very close. In this case it is a masterpiece, I do not know how in the future will make a better film than this (even if you said this already with "All About My Mother").
"Volver," which in Italian means "Return" is a three-fold return. First, the return to origin, the mother and the birth, where everything begins and everything, whether we like it or not, comes around. Then the return, to Almodovar, film-themed after two female strongly male film such as "Talk to Her" and "Bad Education." Finally, you return to a kind of cinema that was in the mid-eighties, such as can be, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?". The similarities between the two films are essentially in proximity to the traditions and customs of the people. If in "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" The story revolves around a housewife and monstrous housing in Madrid, "Volver" in the most popular story goes as such. Some English-speaking countries have the belief that people, once dead, remain close to the living, who has read anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Isabel Allende knows what I'm talking about. But does not dwell only on this point, the important part we have the climate, wind and earth. This film has a lot of picaresque English tradition: the wind that makes people crazy, windmills, fire, absurdity.
worth noting the splendid acting of Penelope Cruz in this film better than ever, with a new physicality and built. Almodovar was in fact inspired the character of Raimunda, the Italian majority of the Sixties, like Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and especially Magnani, lauded at the end of the film with a piece of "Beautiful" by Visconti. Therefore, the Cruz boasts a heavy makeup, which gives her very strangely, and a padded seat, with busty breasts (real), gives the classic form of 'hourglass'. I think it's a character so well built and well played to stay immortal, with his beautiful, intense eyes and espressivissimi blacks. A small
and ultimate return is to Carmen Maura, who starred with Almodovar in 1988, with "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." In this film has aged, but the actress has always been an exceptional time. Almodovar said that she is like Toto, he never made a drama school but it's a great actress.
level directorial Almodovar indulges in every movie, this one uses the usual bright colors, a beautiful photograph and the virtuoso shots from above, that are now his trademark. Despite
as type of film is closer to his first film, not to be seen as a setback. E ', however, surprising a couple and evolution of one of the greatest artists of this century (and the past). It is a 'almodramma', a term coined for his films, where you mix love and comedy in perfect amalgam and fun. This film is beautifully written, thought out as a small bomb, full of suspense, hilarity and numerous plot twists and overwhelming. For this would be unnecessary and detrimental to reveal other details of the plot. All this and much more, makes "Volver" a perfect film, intense and riusciutissimo.
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