Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Antonio Banderas (who scored Best Actor for this role at Cannes 2019) and Penélope Cruz in...
Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Antonio Banderas (who scored Best Actor for this role at Cannes 2019) and Penélope Cruz in a reflection on cinema, art, family, love and sexual awakening.
"Banderas, in one of his very finest performances, plays Salvador Mallo, who has a fair few things in common with Pedro Almodóvar. Suffering from a range of health issues, Salvador finds himself in a creative rut. He lacks the physical strength to make a film, and this inability to create makes him more depressed. This artistic limbo leads Salvador to reflect on his life, his loves and his films. Pain and Glory goes back in time to Salvador’s childhood, where he was raised, in poverty, in a cave modelled into a house by his doting mother (Cruz). In the present, a reunion with an actor he has long been estranged from leads to an addiction to heroin. Amidst the pain, there are thoughts of past glories, and those hopefully to come, in a film that arrives at a resolute position of hope." (Sydney Film Festival)
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Pain and Glory | Details
- Award winner
- Best Actor (Banderas) and Best Composer (Alberto Iglesias), Cannes 2019
- Rating
- MA15+, Strong drug use and brief nudity
- Runtime
- 113
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Spain