Volver = Return
(DVD) 

Originally produced as a Spanish motion picture in 2006.

"Sony Pictures classics"--Container.

Special features: Audio commentary with director Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz [audio feature]; Making of "Volver" [featurette] (8 min.); Interview with Pedro Almodóvar [featurette] (10 min.); Interview with Penélope Cruz [featurette] (6 min.) Interview with Carmen Maura [featurette] (9 min.); AFI Fest 2006 Tribute to Penelope Cruz [featurette] (18 min.); Photo gallery [slide show]; Poster gallery [slide show]; Previews (13 min.).

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Director de fotografia, José Luis Alcaine, operador de cámera, Joaquin Manchado ; montaje [editor], José Salcedo ; música, Alberto Iglesias ; director artistica, Salvador Parra.

Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre, Carlos Blanco.

The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and speaks about her sister Irene as if she were still alive. When the aunt dies, some things change, many things return, and Raimunda's troubles become extremely complicated. She bustles through them with passionate determination, a hard-working woman pulled in fifty directions, making a life for her family, reveling in every emotion but self-pity.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.35:1.

In Spanish with optional subtitles in English.

Winner, Goya Awards for Mejor Película (Best Film), Mejor Director (Best Director)--Pedro Almodóvar, Mejor Actriz Principal (Best Lead Actress)--Penélope Cruz, Mejor Actriz de Reparto (Best Supporting Actress)--Carmen Maura, Mejor Música Original (Best Original Score)--Alberto Iglesias, 2007 ; Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress--Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Best Screenplay--Pedro Almodóvar, 2006.

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