Quote: There is no director alive more connected to the hearts, minds and mysteries of women than Spain’s Pedro Almodovar. With a string of masterworks stretching from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown to All About My Mother and Talk to Her, Almodovar is a filmmaker worth following anywhere. In Volver (“return”), a movie that leaps off the screen to take its place in your dreams, the writer-director tells a ghost story that manages to include lust, incest, rape and murder. You’ll laugh, too — wildly, helplessly — because to Almodovar, laughter is life.
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The opening scene is set in La Mancha (Almodovar’s birthplace), at a cemetery where Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and her sister Sole (Lola Duenas) fight the wind to clean the gravestones of their parents, who died in bed in a fire. Almodovar keeps his movie as intimate as a whisper that makes us lean in to uncover its dark secrets. For starters, the sisters have an aunt (Chus Lampreave) who claims their mom, Irene (the miraculous Carmen Maura reunited with Almodovar after seventeen years), has returned from the dead to take care of her.
No one doubts it, especially Sole, who passes off Irene as a Russian and puts her to work in the illegal beauty salon she runs in her apartment. When Raimunda is around, ghost mom hides under a bed, coming out to help only when Raimunda’s teen daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) claims to have stabbed Raimunda’s husband, Paco (Antonio de la Torre), when he tried to rape her. That’s when Raimunda hides the body in a freezer in a restaurant, where she serves food to a visiting film crew. Throw in neighbor Augustina (Blanca Portillo), who’s dying of cancer but not before she adds a new twist. Plot is merely Almodovar’s way into the souls of his women. With the help of six extraordinary actresses, who shared the acting prize at Cannes, Almodovar crafts one of the year’s best films.
Cruz, never more voluptuous (think Sophia Loren in Two Women) or vulnerable, is a force of nature fully deserving her Oscar buzz. She’s that good. Volver is Almodovar’s passionate tribute to the community of women — living and dead — who nurtured him. Through the transformative power of his art — carried on the wings of Alberto Iglesias’ exhilarating score — we feel their presence.
You do not want to miss this one. By Peter Travers Language(s):Spanish Subtitles:English.
Sony content browser 1.1. Carlos Gardel Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardes; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the. Gardel's voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator, Gardel wrote several classic tangos. Gardel died in an airplane crash at the height of his career, becoming an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America. For many, Gardel embodies the soul of the tango style.
He is commonly referred to as 'Carlitos', 'El Zorzal' (The [Song] Thrush), 'The King of Tango', 'El Mago' (The Wizard), 'El Morocho del Abasto' (The Brunette boy from Abasto), and ironically 'El Mudo' (The Mute). Biography Early life Gardel was born to unmarried 25-year-old laundress Berthe Gardes, the baby registered under the name Charles Romuald Gardes in,, on 11 December 1890. The father of the baby boy was listed on his birth certificate as 'unknown'; eleven days later Berthe Gardes signed a statement establishing the baby's father as Paul Laserre, a married man who left Toulouse a few months before the baby was born. Berthe Gardes left Toulouse a few years later, likely to escape the social stigma of having a child born out of wedlock. In early 1893 in, mother and son boarded the ship SS Don Pedro and sailed to Buenos Aires, arriving on 11 March 1893. Berthe Gardes had her passport recorded; she told immigration authorities that she was a widow. The two-year-old boy was recorded as Charles Gardes.
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