In this case, all the locations were the places that I used to live when I was a child. More even here than in All About My Mother. Maybe All About My Mother - Part 2! In fact, my mother is present in the whole movie. Given the subject of this film, should the title really be All About My Mother? And the way I think I make it believable, something which - in two lines - looks rather unbelievable.
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The movie is not represented in just a few lines the important parts of my movie are the tone, all the characters and the way they are directed. And if you tell only the story, without explaining other elements, it looks like something very outrageous. What I mean is, in two lines or four or five or ten, you have to give the highlights of the plot - and you betray the tone of the movie. In the press kit, you say it’s very difficult to summarise the film in a few lines. As demonstrated by the fact that the Cannes jury decided to award Maura, along with Cruz and the other female member of the ensemble, a joint Best Actress award, it was a wise decision. After working with her on six films at the outset of his career - from Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980 to the international breakout hit that was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown eight years later - it took 18 years for Almodovar to reunite for a seventh collaboration. Yet if it’s a film about ghosts, then it’s only appropriate that the director should be haunted by one of his own, with Volver marking the long-overdue reunion of Almodovar with actress Carmen Maura, who plays Abuela. In particular, he drew from her when creating the character of Abuela Irene, the deceased matriarch who inexplicably returns to her family home to settle her affairs with her two daughters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Dueñas). Set in a small village in La Mancha, where he grew up, Almodovar was particularly influenced by his own mother when writing the story. Yet more so than any other before it, the Spanish auteur’s latest film Volver - which won him Best Screenplay at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival - is a work steeped in personal nostalgia. Since he began making shorts over thirty years ago, Pedro Almodovar has emerged as one of Europe’s leading directors with such contemporary classics as All About My Mother and the Oscar-winning Talk To Her.