Yes, Almodovar is back - in fact he never left

Erna 2022-04-19 09:02:00


After watching the movie and walking out of the theater (a little embarrassed with red eyes from crying), I couldn't help but sigh: Ah! Sure enough, only gays know women best…. To say that a straight male director can make this kind of film is simply more impossible than the rain in the middle of the day.

Rewinding the time by five minutes, the background pattern of the crew list at the end of the film is still in the style of El Deseo.

Push back the time for another three minutes, and when the plot and editing make you suddenly feel "Ah! Oops, the film seems to be over soon!", then you suddenly realize that you didn't realize that you were "watching a movie" at all, and It's watching and participating in the life of a group of women, and my God is so unfinished.

The time was pushed back two hours. In the first scene of the opening, the long rolling medium shot showed women from various families busy cleaning and scrubbing the tombstones in the large cemetery of Shuofuye, which made me look forward to this film. , fondness, some indescribable familiarity and some good foreboding.

Facts have proved to be true. Penélope Cruz's performance is amazing (it's not worth it if you can't help but go to Hollywood to be a gold rush vase for her), and the entire cast - a large group of women of different looks, age and roles, Women and women - also outstanding; of course, not only did not (like too many once-excellent "famous directors") fail in the evening, but Almodóvar, who continued to mature and progress, was so happy and moved that he wanted to give him a big hug . All in all, although the year isn't over yet, I'm pretty sure Volver is definitely my favorite movie of 2006. Must see!

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Volver quotes

  • Irene: Don't say that, Raimunda, or I'll start crying. And ghosts don't cry.

  • Sole: Mom?

    Irene: Hum?

    Sole: There's something you want me to do, isn't?

    Irene: Cut my hair.

    Sole: I mean if there's something you couldn't do alive and doesn't let you rest.

    Irene: There are always things undone. Or bad done. And my life has been no exception. Look, I don't know if I can fix them, but if I can, it's up to me to do it.

    Sole: [after a long silence] Customers will arrive soon. What are we going to do?

    Irene: We attend to them. I'll help you.

    Sole: But I can't introduce you as my mother. They all know I'm an orphan.

    Irene: Then I'll pretend to be foreign.

    Sole: Foreign? Where from?

    Irene: ¿Dominican?

    Sole: No. There are lots of them on the neighborhood and they would notice the accent.

    Irene: ¿Chinese? Madrid is full of Chinese people.

    Sole: Who's going to believe that you're from China, mom?

    [Thinks]

    Sole: Something strange. Not very common around here... Rusian.

    Irene: Do wou really think I look more Rusian than Chinese?

    Sole: Yes. Rusian women are just like us, mom. Look, whatever you hear, keep your mouth shut. And it can't looked in your face that you understand us.