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Volver Full Production Notes
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 4 SynopsisMadrid. Today. Raimunda is a young mother, hard working and very attractive, with an unemployed husband and a daughter in mid-adolescence. The family finances are very shaky, so Raimunda has got several jobs. She is a very strong woman, a born fighter, but also very fragile emotionally. She has kept a terrible secret to herself since childhood. Read More
4 Letter from Juan José Millás
Most of the writers I know are very interested in films. Some of them are friends of mine. My assistant, Lola, sent the screenplay of Volver to Juan José Millás and Gustavo Martín Garzo. Their replies are in among what follows (words which they never imagined I would use parasitically... Read More
4 Shooting of Volver
“The most difficult thing about Volver has been writing its synopsis. My films are becoming more and more difficult to relate and summarize in a few lines. Fortunately, this difficulty has not been reflected in the work of the actors, or of the rest of the crew. The shooting of “Volver” went like clockwork. Read More
4 Confession
“Volver (meaning `coming back') is a title that includes several kinds of `coming back' for me.
I have come back, a bit more, to comedy. I have come back to the world of women, to La Mancha (this is undoubtedly my most strictly Manchegan film, the language, the customs, the patios, the sobriety of the facades, the streets paved with cobblestones). Read More
4 Letter from Gustavo Martin Garzo
Dear Pedro, I really liked the script of your new film. Everything in it seems very familiar to me, very much you. It reminds me of the world of What Have I Done to Deserve This?! But it is less baroque, there is a transparency in it that situates us again in that world, it couldn't be otherwise, but at the same time in a different way - more poetic, wiser, more touching. Read More
4 The River
“The happiest memories of my childhood are related to the river.
My mother used to take me with her when she went to wash clothes there because I was very little and she had no one with whom to leave me. There were always several women washing clothes and spreading them out on the grass. Read More
4 Genre and Tone
“I suppose that Volver is a dramatic comedy. It has funny sequences and dramatic sequences. Its tone imitates “real life” but it isn't a portrayal of local customs. Rather it has a surreal naturalism, if that were possible. I've always mixed genres and I still do. For me, it comes naturally. Read More
4 Family
“Volver is a film about family, made with family. My own sisters were the advisers on what happened both in La Mancha and inside the houses in Madrid (the hair salon, the meals, cleaning materials, etc.) More
4 The Strength and Fragility of Penélope Cruz
And the beauty… Penélope is at the height of her beauty. It's a cliché but in her case it's true. (Those eyes, her neck, her shoulders, her breasts!! Penélope has got one of the most spectacular cleavages in world cinema). Looking at her has been one of the great pleasures of this shoot. Although she has become... Read More
4 The Return of Carmen
“I never imagined that there was so much expectation about our reencounter. I'm surprised by the number of people who told me how happy they were that Carmen and I were working together again! A song by Chavela says: `You always go back to the old places where you loved life'. That can also be applied to people. Read More
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