Pain and Glory (2019)

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

Director:

Pedro Almodóvar

Writer:

Pedro Almodóvar (as Almodóvar)

Stars:

Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia

4 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Antonio Banderas	...	Salvador Mallo
Asier Etxeandia	...	Alberto Crespo
Leonardo Sbaraglia	...	Federico Delgado
Nora Navas	...	Mercedes
Julieta Serrano	...	Jacinta
César Vicente	...	Eduardo
Asier Flores	...	Salvador Mallo
Penélope Cruz	...	Jacinta
Cecilia Roth	...	Zulema
Susi Sánchez	...	Beata
Raúl Arévalo	...	Venancio Mallo
Pedro Casablanc	...	Dr. A. Galindo
Julián López	...	Presentador
Eva Martín	...	Radióloga
Sara Sierra	...	Conchita

Storyline

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

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Plot Keywords:

male full frontal nudity | gay lead character | gay kiss | heroin | mother and son | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for drug use, some graphic nudity and language.

Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

4 October 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dor e Glória

Filming Locations:

Paterna, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company Credits

Production Co:

Canal+, Ciné +, El Deseo

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Julieta Serrano and Antonio Banderas already played mother and son, more than 30 years before, in another two movies by Pedro Almodóvar: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and Matador (1986)

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Connections

Features Splendor in the Grass (1961)

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Soundtracks

Come sinfonia
Written by Pino Donaggio
Performed by Mina

User Reviews

A happy child. A tormented adult.

We discover an Imaginary Invalid (Molière, 1673) who is afraid of growing old and who renews contact, more or less deftly, with former acquaintances for an undisclosed purpose, either in a process of redemption or in order to fill the void of his existence. I truly loved the introductory scene with the four women washing clothes at the edge of a river, and the scenes in which Salvador Mallo is a child, with Penélope Cruz as his mother. These scenes are tenderly contemplative. Otherwise, the movie drags on excessively. Although I'm usually fond of biographies, with a certain eclecticism, on people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mahatma Gandhi, Alan Turing, Napoléon Bonaparte, Christopher Columbus or even Elton John, what is the point, if I may, of a biography about Pedro Almodovar? In my humble opinion, this cinematographic autobiography, while moving and successful, might be summed up to an egocentric work about a sad and lonely man, with an insignificant embarrassment of riches, and is then probably reserved for the regular fans of Pedro Almodovar.