VOLVER

Saw the new Pedro Almodovar film VOLVER starring Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura. His films are always enjoyable and this is no exception although I wouldn't say it is one of my favories, foor a few reasons.

The fim is about women, Penelope Cruz is beautiful, charming, fun, sexy and and a surprisingly good singer, Carmen Muara (from many of his earlier fims) gives a wonderfully tragic performance, many smaller roles have wonderful tender moments that reflect the multifacted lives of women, no naked Gael Garcia or hot drag sex here.

It's a film based on a gimmic that I will not reveal that in retrospect limits the film.

Sometimes tender and charming sometimes the introspection verged on boring. It's a womens film and mind set. If youre a fan of Almodovar you will definitely enjoy it but on a different level than most of hid films.