volver vs el flor


in the film: the new book she wrote that the publisher found too dark, is the script of Volver! And the house the mother returns too in the end, is the house in Volver where the marihuana smoking friend lives!

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YES! I noticed that too.

"Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness." - Almodóvar

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that's exactly what I was thinking...so similar...and the scenery too: Madrid, then the countryside with the white houses and the prairy..so clever.but still: volver is better than el flor! ;)

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YES! I just watched the film for the second time this morning and noticed this. The first time I saw La Flor was before Volver came out, so this never occurred to me.

I wonder if he "borrowed" the idea for Volver from this movie in the same way he "borrowed" the storyline about Manuela and the National Transplant Organisation and recycled it in All About My Mother. Or perhaps he had the idea for a long time before he finally decided to make it into a film. Anyway, I suppose we can only speculate.

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and I thought that was awesome. It partly made the movie for me.

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mmm I haven't watched Volver yet. I gotta do it ASAP.

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Yes, I noticed that too, very good eye~!

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That's clever! Hadn't thought about that yet.

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