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Pain and Glory
“Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema”
7.4 / 10• 2019• 1h 54m•R• Spanish
Drama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Antonio Banderas
Salvador Mallo
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Pedro Almodóvar's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Pain and Glory is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
