Millennium Actress vs Volver

Millennium Actress has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.5/10 for Volver). Millennium Actress is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 2h 1m. Millennium Actress is the older of the two (2002 against 2006). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Millennium Actress posterMillennium Actress2002 VS Volver posterVolver2006
Millennium ActressVolver
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 7.5/10
Year20022006
Length1h 27m2h 1m
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
Country––
DirectorSatoshi KonPedro Almodóvar
Main castFumiko Orikasa, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Masane TsukayamaCarmen Maura, Penélope Cruz, María Alfonsa Rosso, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre

Synopsis

Millennium Actress

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

Volver

Raimunda, a working-class woman living in Madrid, is dealing with the aftermath of a fire that killed her parents in her native village in La Mancha. Raimunda's life is further complicated when her deceased mother, Irene, returns as a ghost to resolve unfinished family business, including a murder and other buried truths.

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