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Volver is a 2006 Spanish comedy drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The cast includes Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, and Blanca Portillo. Esther García served as producer, with Agustín Almodóvar as executive producer. The film was produced by El Deseo and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and Warner Bros. Entertainment. José Luis Alcaine Escaño was the director of photography, José Salcedo the film editor, and Alberto Iglesias the composer. Filming took place in Madrid, which is also a narrative location alongside La Mancha.
The film has a runtime of 121 minutes and was released on March 17, 2006. It received an R rating. Volver was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the European Film Award for Best Film. It won the European Film Award for Best Actress, Best Cinematographer, Best Composer, and Best Director at the 19th European Film Awards. The film has a Metascore of 84 and an IMDb rating of 7.6.
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Film · TMDB
7.5Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Cast
- Penélope Cruz as Raimunda
- Carmen Maura as Irene
- Lola Dueñas as Sole
- Blanca Portillo as Agustina
- Yohana Cobo as Paula
- Chus Lampreave as Aunt Paula
Themes
- child abuse
- fire
- rape
- sexual abuse
- madrid, spain
- staged death
- superstition
- return
- solidarity
- village
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
112,274 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
84/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 61 wins & 94 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Volver
- Film.image
- Volver Poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Film.producer
- Esther García
- Film.writer
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Film.music
- Alberto Iglesias
- Film.cinematography
- José Luis Alcaine
- Film.editing
- José Salcedo
- Film.studio
- El Deseo
- Film.distributor
- Warner Bros. Entertainment España
- Film.runtime
- 121 minutes
- Film.country
- Spain
- Film.language
- Spanish
- Film.budget
- $9.4 million
- Film.gross
- $87.2 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 19th European Film Awards
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Original language
- Spanish
- Main subject
- intergenerationality
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Screenwriter
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Composer
- Alberto Iglesias
- Producer
- Esther García
- Production company
- El Deseo
- Cinematographer
- José Luis Alcaine Escaño
- Narrative location
- La Mancha
- Filming location
- Madrid
- Duration
- 121
- FilmAffinity ID
- 428723
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- film editor
- José Salcedo
- title
- Volver
- distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- executive producer
- Agustín Almodóvar
- capital cost
- 9400000
- box office
- 87200000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 84/100
- publication date
- 2006-09-28
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