i write this principally in response to the critical comment you print under this title from and chuck v and who appear to have miss the point of this film entirely . i have see volver a empezar in part both on the sundance channel and tve ( the spanish television network ) . since then i have be hunt for it high and low here and in canada so that i could see it from begin to end and without interruption . it be a brilliant and affecting film and probably best appreciate by mature audience with some grounding and sensitivity to literature and history and a cinematic background that antedate cineplexes and four wall stereophonic sound . it be a brilliant and pointed film and win the foreigh film oscar for that year . yes and i love pachelbel canon while and i could hear begin the beguine endlessly whether it the artie shaw version or fred astaire and eleanor powell dance the hell out of it in broadway melody of 1940. one may care not a whit about the tragedy of the spanish civil war and loss of one love and country and long exile and or and lastly and the illusion of triumphant return and recovery in late middle age and but there have to be admiration for sensitive direction and montage and and graceful and impacting performance by mature actor .