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An Argentine-executive of a multinational-returns home from exile to close a factory and he meets his ex-girlfriend and former best friend in this look at the political and social situation in Argentina during the last years of the military government.
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| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldThe result is intoxicating; a free-spinning story that's by its end enormously satisfying, creating its own kind of magic. |
| eFilmCritic.comDan LybargerSo how good is Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar's latest effort? "Volver" (to return) is so mesmerizingly quirky that I sat through a screening with an injured right arm writhing with pain as I became immersed in the film. |
| Charlotte WeeklySean O'ConnellSupplying dialogue for multifaceted female characters isn't Almodovar's lone specialty, but it's safe to say he does it better than most people in the film business today. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreIt's clever and entertaining. It's marvelously deft, but never daffy. It works well enough, despite feeling like the most conventional film this great, envelope-pushing Spanish director has ever made. |
| culturevulture.netLes WrightIt is an impossible hybrid, (in the words of at least one observer) an epic comedy. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsIf ever there was such a thing as grand melodrama, many of Pedro Almodóvar's works would certainly fit the description, and Volver (accent on the second v and long last syllable) is the grandest of them all. |
| Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)Jonathan R. PerryHollywood, take notice: If you hand Penelope Cruz a role with more depth than the paper it's printed on, this is what you'll get. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandA celebration of what women can and will do to survive this mortal coil. Penelope Cruz is transformed into a classic woman for all the ages. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is refreshing to see Cruz acting in the culture and language that is her own. As it did with Sophia Loren in the 1950s, Hollywood has tried to force Cruz into a series of show-biz categories, when she is obviously most at home playing a woman like the ones she knew, grew up with, could have become. |
| Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)Josh LarsenThe general rule in Hollywood is that an actress can give either a glamorous performance or an 'important' one. But Pedro Almodovar allows his actresses to do both. |