PAIN AND GLORY (2019) (Spain, France) Drama
Dolor y gloria (Original Title)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Official Selection 2019
• Cannes Film Festival
CAST:
Antonio Banderas - Winner - Best Actor - Cannes 2019
Penélope Cruz
Asier Etxeandia
Leonardo Sbaraglia
SYNOPSIS:
"Pain and Glory" tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void created by the incapacity to keep on making films.
REVIEWS:
"The filmmaker’s best and most personal movie in years."
- Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE
"As ever, Almodóvar has made a film about pleasure, which is itself a pleasure: witty, intelligent and sensuous."
- Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
