Volver thus offers a resolutely original and feminist perspective on love and homecoming that centers on the relationships between mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends. Volver catches director Pedro Almodovar and star Penelope Cruz at the peak of their respective powers, in service of a layered, thought-provoking film. In Pedro Almodovar's enchanting, gentle, transgressive 'Volver,' a deceased matriarch named Irene (Carmen Maura) has moved in with her sister Paula (Chus Lampleave), who is growing senile and appreciates some help around the house, especially with the baking. PEDRO Almodóvar’s irresistible comic melodrama Volver is the best thing to happen to Penelope Cruz since she broke up with Tom Cruise. Like the Odyssey, Volver places love and family at the center of its narrative, but, unlike its ancient predecessor, which tells the story of a husband’s return to his wife after a long separation, Almodóvar’s vision of nostos privileges family ties over romantic love and presents the bond between husbands and wives as an obstacle to the characters’ homecoming. the theories by using the same principles/characteristics of patriarchy only he reverses the gender/sexuality roles. In Volver Paula is almost raped by her drunker father Paco. In particular, insofar as Homer’s poem is the foundational text in Western culture of the very idea of homecoming-or nostos, to use the ancient Greek term-the treatment of the homecoming theme in Almodóvar’s film parallels, and significantly diverges from, that of the Odyssey. For example the main character in Volver Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) has a daughter whose name is Paula. She and her sister Sole (short for Soledad, 'loneliness') return to the village of their birth in La Mancha. Cruz plays Raimunda, a thirty something living in Madrid. Some films represent the ancient world directly, drawing on historical or literary sources, but many that focus on contemporary narratives can be shown to be inspired-directly or not-by ancient myths whose history is so influential that they pervade many of our notions about the human experience. Volver is a 2006 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar starring Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura (the names are significant if you are at all aware of Spanish film for the past 30 years, or their relationship with Almodovar).
From his introduction he is clearly set up as a domestic monster.
The only male character with anything approximating significant screen time is a caricature. Reflecting Almodóvar’s reported upbringing, males are superfluous in Volver. A meditation on the notion of return, Pedro Almodóvar’s 2006 Volver focuses on the modern experience of love, memory, and identity in a manner that is at once indebted to the past and resolutely contemporary. Volver also seems to project a position that all men (well, at least heterosexual ones) indeed are bastards.
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