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| Penélope Cruz | Raimunda |
| Carmen Maura | Irene |
| Lola Dueñas | Sole |
| Blanca Portillo | Augustina |
| Yohana Cobo | Paula |
| Chus Lampreave | Aunt Paula |
| Antonio de la Torre | Paco |
| Carlos Bianco | Emilio |
| Carmen Machi | |
| María Isabel Díaz | Regina |
| Neus Sanz | Inés |
| Leandro Rivera | Production Assistant |
| Pepa Aniorte | Neighbor |
| Yolanda Ramos | Televison Presenter |
| Elvira Cuadrupani | |
| Alfonsa Rosso | |
| Fany de Castro | |
| Eli Iranzo | |
| Carlos Sasha Garcia | |
| Carlos Garcia | |
| Cambero Magdalena Broto | |
| Isabel Ayucar | |
| Concha Galan | |
| Mari Franç Torres | |
| Natalia Roig | |
| Alberto Iglesias | Conductor |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Director, Screenwriter |
| Reyes Abades | Special Effects |
| César Abades | Special Effects |
| Oscar Abades | Special Effects |
| Jose Luis Alcaine | Cinematographer |
| Agustín Almodóvar | Executive Producer |
| Jose Antonio Bermudez | Sound Mixer |
| Rafa Carmon | Asst. Director |
| Bina Daigeler | Costumes/Costume Designer |
| Esther Garcia | Producer |
| Diego Garrido | Sound Editor |
| Alberto Iglesias | Score Composer |
| Manolo Laguna | Sound Editor |
| Joaquin Manchado | Camera Operator |
| Toni Novella | Production Manager |
| Manló Osuna | Makeup |
| Salvador Parra | Art Director |
| Daniel Reboul | Special Effects |
| Miguel Rejas | Sound/Sound Designer |
| José Salcedo | Editor |
| Urban Tomás | Special Effects |
When it's a Pedro Almodovar movie, of course. This isn't Almodovar's best movie (that would be ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER), but it would be a masterpiece in any other director's filmography. I loved this movie, and I loved Penelope Cruz in it.
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Posted October 1, 2010
This is a great movie, though it's all in Spanish, I didn't find that in any way a drawback. This movie is amazing and captivating. The performances are excellent and the plot is amazing!!
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Posted October 1, 2010
In traditional horror films, the killer slashes his victims, leaves them to bleed, and if he's generous, he buries them. In Almodovor film, he does that, and so much more. Turning what you'd expect to be a gory flick into an in depth emotional masterpiece. Raimunda, played flawlessly by Penelope Cruz, is the mother of a middle class, spanish language family. She lives day by day working as a waitress, a laundrymat runner, and a janitor. After taking a city bus, she arrives home to her daughter Paula, named after Raimunda's Aunt Paula, and her husband Paco. On her time off, her daughter, and sister Sole accompany her as she cleans graves, and visits her unwell Aunt Paula. Afterword, the group visits Agustina, the family friend who everyday looks over Aunt Paula to make sure she isn't rotting in her easy chair. One night, after returning from a hellish day at work, Paco informs Raimunda he has lost his job. Hysterical, she goes off on her now unemployed husband as he's watching soccer, ranting, "There'll be no more cable. We are a poor family, and we'll live like one. Paula, put that phone down!" The following evening, Paco is laying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, a knife in his stomach. What is this now widowed woman to do, except put her decaying husband in a freezer to preserve him? Well, that's what she does, and with her daughters help. Matters get even worse when her Aunt Paula, suffering from blindness and uncontrollable shaking, passes away. All at the same time, Raimunda is asked to host a week long lunch for a film crew of 30. Working with only the help of her daughter, and her hooker friend, Regina. While Raimunda sorts everything out, Agustina is diagnosed with cancer. Meanwhile, Sole is repeatedly visited by her dead mother, who died in a home fire. Raimunda is sent from good wife and mother and thrown into an unstable emotional wreck in the course of a week. With her sister Sole keeping the visions of her surely dead mother a secret, and Raimunda keeping Paco's death a secret, when will the truth come out? By the shocking finale, Raimunda will battle with her family, and her own sanity to keep everything together, and everyone...
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