Title: Pain and Glory Year: 2019 Director: Pedro Almodovar Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Asier Etxeandia Synopsis: Aging film director Salvador Mallo (Banderas) recollects his life while contending with a late creative in the later days of his...
This review originally ran as a part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. In many ways, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory feels like a departure. It’s not that the hothouse melodramas that make up most of his output have resisted personal...
In many ways, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory feels like a departure. It’s not that the hothouse melodramas that make up most of his output have resisted personal touches; 2004’s Bad Education was arguably overflowing with them and some of...