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Featuring an Oscar-nominated performance from Penélope Cruz and a memorable turn from Carmen Maura, Pedro Almodóvar's luminous comedy-drama follows a woman who returns to her small La Mancha hometown and encounters her mother's ghost. "Volver" screens as part of OKCMOA's Four by Almodóvar series.Pedro Almodóvar | 2006 | In Spanish a with English subtitles | 121 minutes | R (some sexual content and language) | DCP
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“Inspired by both Almodóvar’s childhood in La Mancha and plot threads from several of his earlier films (including "The Flower of My Secret" and "Law of Desire"), "Volver" sees the director celebrating female fortitude and form all at once in the vivacious vehicle of Penélope Cruz. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Cruz evokes both Sophia Loren and Anna Magnani as Raimunda, an already overextended woman who must confront a terrible act of violence on the same day her mother (Carmen Maura) returns from the dead. A kind of Almodóvarian meta-text — those familiar with the director’s earlier work will definitely reap the richest rewards here — Volver amply testifies to its maker’s growth as an artist, perfectly balancing tragedy and farce in his matrix of family, sensuality, and violence. "‘Volver" is a film cut like glass. It refracts the gaze of the cinema screen, sending it spinning across genres like shafts of criss-crossing light. It’s as canny a movie as you’ll ever see’ (Little White Lies).” —Craig Caron, Toronto International Film Festival
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