![]() His two previous movies, “Talk to Her” (2002) and “Bad Education” (2004), explored previously uncharted regions of masculine melodrama, while “Volver,” whose title can be translated as “to return,” revisits the woman-centered territory of “All About My Mother” (1999) and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988). Pedro Almodóvar, the benevolent deity of this world, has revealed it - or, rather, created it - piece by piece from one film to the next. Really, though, the movie takes place in a familiar, enchanted land - Almodóvaria, you might call it, or maybe Pedrostan- where every room and street corner is saturated with bright color and vivid feeling and where discordant notes of violence, jealousy and fear ultimately resolve in the deeper harmonies of art. The action in “Volver” moves back and forth between a workaday neighborhood in Madrid and a windswept village in the Spanish countryside. ![]()
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