MOVIE · 2006

Volver

ComedyDramaRomance121 min

Raimunda is a working mother in a village south of Madrid, trying to protect her teenage daughter while old family secrets refuse to stay buried. Penélope Cruz is Raimunda, practical and overextended as a sudden death, lies at home, and a body in the freezer upend her daily life. Then her mother Irene, believed to have died in a fire years earlier, begins to reappear; Carmen Maura's Irene brings ghost stories and local superstition back into a family that has never settled its past. Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, the film follows mothers, daughters, sisters, and neighbors as private shame and long-hidden truths surface.