Pain and Glory

Mar, 2019

114 mins

7.4

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

Reviews

SWITCH.

9.0

August 15, 2019

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 a...
CinemaSerf

7.0

April 15, 2024

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 f...

Videos

PAIN AND GLORY | In Theaters Now!
Dec 13, 2019

Teaser
Academy Conversations: Pain and Glory
Oct 29, 2019

Featurette
PAIN AND GLORY | Now Playing
Oct 25, 2019

Teaser
Official Intrigue Trailer
Oct 03, 2019

Trailer
Official Love and Family Trailer
Oct 03, 2019

Trailer
Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas on Getting Personal with “Pain and Glory”
Sep 28, 2019

Featurette
Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas on “Pain and Glory”
Sep 28, 2019

Featurette
TIFF 2019 Cast and Crew Q&A
Sep 07, 2019

Featurette