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Steven Shaviro: "Far from agreeing with the cliche that his recent films, and this one especially, are more 'normative' than all the ones about junkies and drag queens and fetishists, I'd say rather that Volver is more disreputable than (for instance) Dark Habits, or even Law of Desire (which remains nonetheless one of Almod�var's greatest films), precisely to the extent that it doesn't hide or deflect in any way its basic melodramatic drive."
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(Tangent: How on earth did Penelope Cruz get a nom for her passable performance in Volver, with no corresponding Supporting Actress nod for Blanca Portillo, who made Cruz look like some amateur hour runner-up?)
“American” Culture 2007
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[T] he central paradox of Volver is this: how a film so wholly ornate and unlikely ( 'neoclassical' seems somehow apropos) ends up the director's most vibrantly immediate work.
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Volver is about invisibility as a just punishment for this sin; about the false visibility, or self-exposure, promoted by a degraded form of show business; and about the revelations made possible, by contrast, through a true performance, which can be public and personal at the same time.
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Most of all, though, Volver is an exciting crime story, comedy and tear-jerker about the ways these themes may loop back through generations of women.
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Disagreeing, Dave Micevic writes, "The opening shot of Almodóvar's latest film Volver is without contest the best opening shot of 2006."
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Volver is not quite on their level - it's merely very, very good - which may make it sound like a disappointment.
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Which just goes to show you: To explain Volver in general is to explain nothing at all.
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Penelope, in "Volver" -- CRUZ: I know what you're going to ask.
Hollywood Royalty 2007
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Gardels: One Hollywood producer said to me that the critical success of foreign films in this year's Hollywood awards season - "Babel," Stephen Frears '"The Queen," "Volver" - is because filmmakers like yourself have broken out of the cycle of remakes Hollywood was stuck in by telling new stories about our changing world - something U.S. filmmakers once excelled at.
Nathan Gardels: "Babel's" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: Hollywood Must Show Point of View of Others 2008
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