Films at HEART Spanish FilmFeast:  Come and celebrate Spain with the film Volver and some delicious food from HEART’s ABK cafe

This dark comedy stars Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura and Lola Duenas which revolves around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid. Cruz play Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene returns from the dead to tie up loose ends.

Dir Pedro Almodóvar/2hr 1min/Certificate 15/Subtitles/2006

Watch Volver trailer 

Reviews:

Rotten Tomatoes: Volver catches director Pedro Almodovar and star Penelope Cruz at the peak of their respective powers, in service of a layered, thought-provoking film.

Roger Ebert gave it his highest rating of four, calling it “enchanting, gentle, transgressive” and notes “Almodovar is above all a director who loves women—young, old, professional, amateur, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, dead, alive. Here his cheerful plot combines life after death with the concealment of murder, success in the restaurant business, the launching of daughters and with completely serendipitous solutions to (almost) everyone’s problems”.

Tickets £12 (includes both food and film) available from HEART reception and online

Doors 6pm Food 6.30pm Film: 7.30pm