Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory

2019 · 114 min · ES · R · 7.4 (1,964 votes)
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar · Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz · Music Alberto Iglesias

“Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema”

Drama

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

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A deeply personal and visually sumptuous journey through memory, art, and the aches of a life lived. It's a melancholic, reflective experience, rich with human emotion and the bittersweet beauty of looking back, exploring the intricate ties between creation and existence.

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