- According to Pedro Almodóvar, there's only one fake element in Raimunda's (Penélope Cruz) body: the bottom. He said that this kind of characters are usually big-bottomed people, and that Cruz is just too stylized.
- Penélope Cruz became the first Spanish actress ever to be nominated for Best Lead Actress at the Oscars.
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- SPOILER: In Pedro Almodóvar's eleventh film, La flor de mi secreto (1995), the main character (Leo) is criticized for writing a novel about a woman whose husband attempts to rape her daughter and, after the daughter kills him, hides his body in her neighbor's restaurant freezer. Eleven years later, this plot line appears in the narrative of Volver.
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