Dawson Casting: Paula (Yohana Cobo) is fourteen or so, and really looks it, but the actress was around twenty when the movie was shot.
Reality Subtext: The title (volver in Spanish means "to return") has never been so meaningful, as aside from plot points, Pedro Almodóvar brought back his old musesPenélope Cruz and Carmen Maura,note Cruz having stopped working with Almodóvar (and Spanish cinema in general) following her success in Hollywood, while in Maura's case she and Almodóvar had not worked together for almost two decades, after reportedly having a falling out after filming Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and set the film in his native La Mancha, drawing inspiration from the women of his family.
