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Videos & Photos

  • Official Trailer
  • Official Trailer 2

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one's own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

Cast

  • Antonio Banderas
  • Asier Etxeandia
  • Penélope Cruz
  • Leonardo Sbaraglia
  • Julieta Serrano
  • Nora Navas
  • Raúl Arévalo
  • Cecilia Roth
  • Pedro Casablanc
  • Susi Sánchez

Atom User Reviews

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Verified Review
#beautiful
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Almodovar creates an absolutely beautiful story about a man who is coming to terms with his older self. Wonderfully written and very inspired acting. Antonio Banderas and the entire cast were marvelous!

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Corey G
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Loved it so much.

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Metacritic

63
May 18, 2019

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest only occasionally captures the spry, comedic rhythms and impassioned intensity of his finest work.

Metacritic review by Sam C. Mac
Sam C. Mac
Slant Magazine
90
May 18, 2019

But if the tone is more restrained, more elegiac, and lacking that signature Almodóvar outrageousness, the emotional force still knocks you sideways.

Metacritic review by Justin Chang
Justin Chang
Los Angeles Times