A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 70 wins & 182 nominations total
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- TriviaJulieta 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)
- GoofsWhen Eduardo draws Salvador, he sits right in front of him, but when the drawing is shown the angle is oblique a bit above from the left.
- Quotes
Salvador Mallo: The nights that coincide several pains, those nights I believe in God and I pray to him. The days when I only suffer a type of pain I'm an atheist.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 2020 Golden Globe Awards (2020)
- SoundtracksA tu vera
Written by Juan Solano (as Juan Solano Pedrero) and Rafael de León (as Rafael de Leon Arias de Saavedra)
Performed by Rosalía and Penélope Cruz
Featured review
Antonio Banderas is on his way to Oscar ceremony
(Antonio Banderas won Best Actor award at the Cannes festival because he played Almodóvar).
I know there are tons of autobiographical films about a painful past and unfinished business (in Hollywood), but Almodóvar reflects his own past very well.
Almodóvar's "Pain and Glory" is very beautifully shot and well-described autobiographical film about emptiness, recollection of the past and most importantly, about salvation. The film also describes well pain, sadness, self discovery, forgiveness, regret, all these feelings that the director is going through.
Without spoiling anything, the story is about a known Spanish director, Salvador Mallo, who reflects his choices made in his life (from his childhood to his cinema career) as past and present come crashing around him.
Almodóvar wanted to represent his life and memories from his life, bathred boundless desire to live and love that guide us to forgiveness with oneself and others. He's entering the stage where he's no longer have inspiration, but he uses his life as a cinema fiction. Almodóvar reflects mostly to his past as something painful and unfinished. Only with the return of ourselves, with coping with the painful past, we have the possibility to rehabilitate ourselves. As I mentioned, Antonio gives a great performance as a reconstructed fella with a passion.
I think whoever watched Almodóvar's previous pieces would enjoy from his new personal film about a person's valuable soul.
I know there are tons of autobiographical films about a painful past and unfinished business (in Hollywood), but Almodóvar reflects his own past very well.
Almodóvar's "Pain and Glory" is very beautifully shot and well-described autobiographical film about emptiness, recollection of the past and most importantly, about salvation. The film also describes well pain, sadness, self discovery, forgiveness, regret, all these feelings that the director is going through.
Without spoiling anything, the story is about a known Spanish director, Salvador Mallo, who reflects his choices made in his life (from his childhood to his cinema career) as past and present come crashing around him.
Almodóvar wanted to represent his life and memories from his life, bathred boundless desire to live and love that guide us to forgiveness with oneself and others. He's entering the stage where he's no longer have inspiration, but he uses his life as a cinema fiction. Almodóvar reflects mostly to his past as something painful and unfinished. Only with the return of ourselves, with coping with the painful past, we have the possibility to rehabilitate ourselves. As I mentioned, Antonio gives a great performance as a reconstructed fella with a passion.
I think whoever watched Almodóvar's previous pieces would enjoy from his new personal film about a person's valuable soul.
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- Aug 18, 2019
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- Also known as
- Đau Đớn Và Vinh Quang
- Filming locations
- Paterna, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain(underground dwelling)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,567,338
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $152,636
- Oct 6, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $37,359,689
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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