Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory

114 mins | Drama | March 22, 2019

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 and Glory

114 mins | Drama | March 22, 2019

Pain and Glory
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers El Deseo, TVE
Original title Dolor y gloria
Directors Pedro Almodóvar
Writers Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

Antonio Banderas

as Salvador Mallo

Asier Etxeandia

as Alberto Crespo

Leonardo Sbaraglia

as Federico Delgado

Nora Navas

as Mercedes

Julieta Serrano

as Old Jacinta

Penélope Cruz

as Jacinta

César Vicente

as Eduardo

Asier Flores

as Young Salvador

Cecilia Roth

as Zulema

Susi Sánchez

as Pious Woman from Paterna

Raúl Arévalo

as Venancio Mallo

Pedro Casablanc

as Dr. A. Galindo

Julián López

as Presenter

Eva Martín

as Radiologist

Sara Sierra

as Conchita

Rosalía

as Laundress Rosita

Marisol Muriel

as Laundress Mari

Paqui Horcajo

as Laundress Mercedes

Xavi Sáez

as Man at Cinema

Luis Calero

as Father José María

Virgil-Henry Mathet

as Gallerist

Chimezie Eke

as Drug Dealer

Agustín Almodóvar

as Priest at Seminary

Eneko Galende

as Boy at Seminary

Fernando Iglesias

as Pianist

Esther García

as Auxiliar (uncredited)