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Director Pedro Almod?var's introspective drama stars Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Pen?lope Cruz, Julieta Serrano and Leonardo Sbaraglia. Banderas plays a film director who re-examines the highs and lows of his life and interpersonal relationships (via a series of flashbacks) as he attempts to resolve a crippling creative crisis.
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Pain and Glory (2019)
114 min
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.