Drama

Pain and Glory

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.

Release Date : 2019-03-22

Language :Spanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : El DeseoTVE

Production Country : Spain

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Salvador Mallo

Original Name : Antonio Banderas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alberto Crespo

Original Name : Asier Etxeandia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Federico Delgado

Original Name : Leonardo Sbaraglia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mercedes

Original Name : Nora Navas

Gender : Female

Character Name : Old Jacinta

Original Name : Julieta Serrano

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jacinta

Original Name : Penélope Cruz

Gender : Female

Character Name : Eduardo

Original Name : César Vicente

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Salvador

Original Name : Asier Flores

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zulema

Original Name : Cecilia Roth

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pious Woman from Paterna

Original Name : Susi Sánchez

Gender : Female

Character Name : Venancio Mallo

Original Name : Raúl Arévalo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. A. Galindo

Original Name : Pedro Casablanc

Gender : Male

Character Name : Presenter

Original Name : Julián López

Gender : Male

Character Name : Radiologist

Original Name : Eva Martín

Gender : Female

Character Name : Conchita

Original Name : Sara Sierra

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Constancia Céspedes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Laundress Rosita

Original Name : Rosalía

Gender : Female

Character Name : Laundress Mari

Original Name : Marisol Muriel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Laundress Mercedes

Original Name : Paqui Horcajo

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Alba Gómez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man at Cinema

Original Name : Xavi Sáez

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Aline Casagrande

Gender : Male

Character Name : Father José María

Original Name : Luis Calero

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gallerist

Original Name : Virgil-Henry Mathet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Drug Dealer

Original Name : Chimezie Eke

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Esperanza Guardado

Gender : Male

Character Name : Priest at Seminary

Original Name : Agustín Almodóvar

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Miguel Rivera

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boy at Seminary

Original Name : Eneko Galende

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pianist

Original Name : Fernando Iglesias

Gender : Male

Character Name : Auxiliar (uncredited)

Original Name : Esther García

Gender : Female

Reviews

SWITCH.

@maketheSWITCH

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 understand and reflect and celebrate and mourn. It is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, entering the last act of their lives, looking back at what they have created and the battlefield left in their wake, and facing the terror of never creating again. ‘Pain and Glory’ is an intensely beautiful film, one that hangs in the air around you like a perfume for days after. The more I think back on it, the more certain I am that I’ve seen a masterwork. I cannot wait to see it again. - Daniel Lammin Read Daniel's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-pain-and-glory-almodovar-delivers-a-rhapsodic-masterwork

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@Geronimo1967

2024-04-15

This is a wonderful notional career retrospective of filmmaker "Salvador Mallo" (Antonio Banderas) who has a reached an age where he struggles with painkillers and mobility issues - and so embarks on a bit of nostalgia reliving his life. This will one day be described as a classic. Almodóvar at his most pure, grafting the fiction to the fact in such a beautifully crafted way that it is almost impossible to know how you feel whilst you watch it. Banderas is wonderful. He delivers the emotion and the humour - and there is enough of the latter to adequately temper the more emotional aspects of his performance - with consummate skill. Penélope Cruz who always seems more stunning every time she appears on screen plays his mother and even sings - what more could you ask for? In theory, there ought be little joy in this retrospective, but the self-discovery delivers a surprising amount of fulfilment and there is humour to be found here, too.