Pain and Glory

About 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.

Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory is a 2019 drama film. It runs 114 minutes and was released in March 2019.

The film is filed under cheerful, movie business, earnest, and drug abuse.

Antonio Banderas stars as Salvador Mallo, Asier Etxeandia as Alberto Crespo, Leonardo Sbaraglia as Federico Delgado, and Nora Navas as Mercedes. The screenplay is by Pedro Almodóvar.

Bad Education, Moonlight, and Rocketman make useful companions to Pain and Glory, all filed under film director and LGBT. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 1,961 votes and it carries a R rating.