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Pain and Glory

Spain

R
2019-03-22(ES)
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Drama
▪ 1h-54m

74^%

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Overview

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.

Fernando BaldellouAssociate Producer
Clever Beretta CustodioAssociate Producer
Ricardo Marco BudéAssociate Producer
Francisco CelmaAssociate Producer
Esther GarcíaProducer
Ignacio Salazar-SimpsonAssociate Producer

Top Billed Cast

Antonio Banderas

Salvador Mallo

Asier Etxeandia

Alberto Crespo

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Federico Delgado

Nora Navas

Mercedes

Julieta Serrano

Old Jacinta

Penélope Cruz

Jacinta

César Vicente

Eduardo

Asier Flores

Young Salvador

Cecilia Roth

Zulema

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A review by SWITCH.

9.0

Written by SWITCH. on 2021-06-23

If you were to tell me that ‘Pain and Glory’ was Pedro Almodóvar’s final film, I would be inclined to believe you. Rarely has the act of looking back on one's past been so vividly and honestly depicted, and so richly and emotionally satisfying. You can feel the need for this film to exist in every frame, a need to unde...

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