Raimunda's family life shatters with one terrible act of violence, and there is a secret about her late mother Irene (Carmen Maura) that surfaces when Irene returns from beyond the grave to make contact with her astonished daughters. With her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) she tends to the graves of her parents, and visits her ailing Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), who is heartrendingly in the final stages of dementia. Penélope Cruz is Raimunda, a hard-working woman with a teenage daughter, Paula (Yohana Cobo), and a feckless, layabout husband.
Volver, (in English, Coming Home or Coming Back), is a gripping melodrama inspired by the trash TV that is a soundtrack to its characters' lives. Cruz's beauty appears in an altogether different love-context: that of a mother's passionate love for her daughter. There is something so playful and gorgeous about it, and certainly something gorgeous about Penélope Cruz: although the film is notable in that romantic love is quite irrelevant. This new film, being more modest in its scope, and somehow less obviously extravagant, achieves more with its rhetorical flourishes and narrative display. His last two films, Bad Education and Talk To Her, were impressive, though I never quite felt the unconditional rapture of the true Almodóvar believer. I found myself floating right along with them. The picture's ingenuities and contrivances just seem to float out of the screen, like psychedelic moodshapes. Volver seemed guilelessly wonderful when I first saw it earlier this year in Cannes. W ith its overwhelming richness, its colour and warmth, Pedro Almodóvar's new movie is set to capture your heart.
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