'Es una película de mujeres por mujeres.' 'Its a film by women for women.' Almodovar.
“” Volver” is also the title of the song Penelope sings– a song that's so important for her character and for the meaning of the film. 'Volver es un homenaje a los ritos sociales de mi pueblo en relación con la muerte y con los muertos.' 'Volver is a tribute to the social rituals of my people in relationship with death and the dead.' Almodovar. “' Volver,' meaning to come back, is a title with many meanings. Subsequently, one may also ask, why is Volver called Volver? In the end, she moves in to take care of Agustina, who has cancer, out of guilt for killing her mother and out of thanks for her devotion to Tia Paula.Īlso Know, is Irene a ghost in Volver? 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. Tia Paula dies the same night Paula killed Paco, and because of that Raimunda sends her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) to the funeral alone. Simply so, what happens at the end of Volver? Volver is, at its heart, also an affectionate, but complex meditation on the director’s own mother and the womenfolk of his rural La Mancha childhood and poor working-class Madrid youth. Raimunda (Penélope Cruz), her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) visit their home village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to clean the tombstones of their dead parents, who died in a fire four years earlier. Volver is about family ties, women’s relationships with each other, and Almodvar’s genuine love and appreciation of women. Volver ("To Return") occurs in Spain in 2006.