Santo Laura Mulvey’s concern with the depiction of women in unchallenged, mainstream film is becoming more and more pertinent as misogynistic films in the torture-porn genre such as Hostel: Part II (US, Eli Roth, 2007, 94’) and seemingly innocent buddy comedies. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of. Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago.or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls' departed mother, Irene (Maura), has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula's home. I wrote this for my film studies class last quarter: Reworking Mulveys 'gaze' in Pedro Almodovars Volver by J.D. Volver is a 2006 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodvar. A luminous Penélope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses, including Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Ensayo de Gnero sobre la pelcula Volver de Pedro Almodvar Gneros Audiovisuales seccin 603 Flavia Ordez Valdivia 20161713 Mayo de 2018 Siempre he mezclado los gneros y sigo hacindolo. The story mixes many elements that have cropped up in his previous movies and, as usual, there is a strong emphasis on how women's love proves to be a shelter in a storm. From two-time Academy Award®-winner Pedro Almodóvar (2003, Best Original Screenplay, Talk to Her 2000, Best Foreign Language Film, All About My Mother) comes Volver, a comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life's most outrageous tribulations. Pedro Almodovar has set this film in the part Spain where he spent his early years. Although Volver seems to have a soap-operatic story, writer/director Pedro Almodvar avoids most of the melodramatic trappings by maintaining a darkly comedic and honest tone, while Pen lope.