
Pain and Glory (2019)
Rating: 7.4/10
Duration: 114 min
Genres: Drama,
Director(s): Pedro Almodóvar,
Description:
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
- Penélope Cruz as Jacinta
- Leonardo Sbaraglia as Federico Delgado
- Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo
- Pedro Casablanc as Dr. A. Galindo
- Nora Navas as Mercedes
- Susi Sánchez as Pious Woman from Paterna
- Raúl Arévalo as Venancio Mallo
- Asier Etxeandia as Alberto Crespo
- Julián López as Presenter
- Cecilia Roth as Zulema
- Julieta Serrano as Old Jacinta
- César Vicente as Eduardo
- Asier Flores as Young Salvador
- Eva Martín as Radiologist
- Sara Sierra as Conchita