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SPOOKY RESURRECTION: Raimundas (Penelope Cruz, right) gets a visit from the ghost of her dead mother (Carmen Maura).
By Steve Warren Contributing Film Critic
When your dead mother's ghost moves in with
you, who you gonna call? No, not Ghostbusters —
Pedro Aimodovar. It might give him an idea for a
movie.
Oh wait. He's already made it. It's called
"Volver," and it continues Almodovar's tradition
of always being surprising, even if it's not his most
pleasant surprise. It's neither a laugh-out-loud
comedy nor an over-the-top melodrama. But it's
not deadly serious either—just so slightly tongue-
in-cheek that it never gets heavy.
Almodovar's last film, "Bad Education," was
all about men, most of them
gay. In "Volver," he returns to
his favorite gender, women.
And these women have stresses
and secrets.
After visiting their parents'
graves in their small home-
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Cast: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura
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town, sisters Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and Sole
(Lola Duenas), who live in Madrid, drop in on
their elderly Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), along
with Raimunda's daughter, also named Paula
(Yohana Cobo).
They find her getting along very well for a
woman her age, who's practically blind. Her
neighbor, androgynous Agustina (Blanca Portillo),
shops for her and frequently looks in on her.
But there are rumors that a ghost takes care of
her: The ghost of Aunt Paula's sister — Raimunda
and Sole's mother. The rumor is casually accepted
by the people of their village.
Back in Madrid, young Paula kills her sleazy
father, Paco (Antonio de la Torre). So Raimunda
hides the body in a deep freeze at a restaurant she's
watching for the owner, Emilio (Carlos Blanco),
who wants to sell it. She gets the restaurant going
again when a film crew working nearby asks her
to cater their meals.
Aunt Paula dies, and Raimunda is too busy to
go to her funeral. Sole goes solo and brings back
an unexpected passenger: Irene (Carmen Maura),
their mother!
Irene — or is it her ghost? — moves in with
Sole, who runs an illegal beauty salon in her apart-
ment. Irene works as Sole's assistant, pretending to
be Russian so she doesn't have to speak to anyone.
Raimunda, who was
estranged from her mother for
years, is the last to learn about
her presence in the neighbor-
hood. Agustina, whose hippie
mother mysteriously disap-
peared the day the sisters' par-
ents died in a fire, learns she has terminal cancer
and begs Raimunda to find out from Irene whether
her own mother is alive or dead.
'Hie story unfolds methodically, more slowly
than is customary for Aimodovar but with enough
twists to keep it interesting.
Cruz has won some awards and been touted for
others for her pertbnnance, which feels more
Italian than Spanish. (A clip of Anna Magnani in
"Bellissima" provides a clue to the inspiration.)
She's good but not extraordinary. It's Maura who
really shines.
Almodovar's films always have a gay sensibil-
ity, expressed through a love of mothers and an
understanding of women in general. "Volver" is no
exception.
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