Pain and Glory

"Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema"

2019 1h 54m ES

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★7.4TMDB · 1,961

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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.

“Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema”

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Cast

Antonio Banderas
Salvador Mallo
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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writers: Pablo Buratti, Pedro Almodóvar
Languages: Spanish
Countries: Spain

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.5× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, shot by José Luis Alcaine. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Alberto Iglesias. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Teresa Font shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

ERA

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Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia and Leonardo Sbaraglia carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt8291806 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Pedro Almodóvar directs. José Luis Alcaine behind the camera. Alberto Iglesias scores. Teresa Font cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Spain. Dialogue in Spanish.

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Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 3.5× over at the box office.
2Released 7 years ago.
3Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, shot by José Luis Alcaine. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Alberto Iglesias. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Teresa Font shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia and Leonardo Sbaraglia carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema".
8IMDB entry: tt8291806 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 15 themes, including "drug abuse", "madrid, spain", "cinema on cinema", "movie business".

The technical file

Cinematography: José Luis Alcaine
Original score: Alberto Iglesias
Editing: Teresa Font
Production design: Antxón Gómez
Costume design: Paola Torres
Makeup / hair: Ana María Balsera
Sound: Pelayo Gutiérrez
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $10,769,016
Box office: $37,359,689
Return: 347% of budget
Original language: ES
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Pain and Glory (2019)

Awards

APRECI Award for Best International Premiere
European Film Award for Best Production Designer
European Film Award for Best Actor

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SWITCH.2019-08-16
★ 9/10
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
CinemaSerf2024-04-15
★ 7/10
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.