

Pain and Glory
Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema
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.
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7.4/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $10.8M
- Box office
- $37.4M
- Language
- Spanish
- drug abuse
- madrid, spain
- cinema on cinema
- movie business
- creative crisis
- lgbt
- sexual awakening
- valencia, spain
- chronic pain
- film director
- mother son relationship
- gay theme
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- TheatricalA31 Jan 2020
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival30 Aug 2019
- PremiereNew York Film Festival28 Sept 2019
- TheatricalR4 Oct 2019
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival6 Oct 2019
- PremiereHeartland International Film Festival11 Oct 2019
- PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival3 Jan 2020
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1523 Aug 2019
- Digital / OTT1519 Jun 2020
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival7 Jun 2019
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival4 Aug 2019
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival6 Sept 2019
- PremiereVancouver International Film Festival9 Oct 2019
- Theatrical18 Oct 2019
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+166 Jun 2019
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT626 Jul 2019
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1613 Jun 2019
ChinaCN
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival17 Jun 2019
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+23 May 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical75 Sept 2019
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical14 Jun 2019
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Pain and Glory was released on 22 March 2019.
Audience reviews
2- S9/10
SWITCH.
8/16/2019
If you were to tell me that ‘Pain and Glory’ was Pedro Almodóvar’s final film, I would be inclined to believe you. Rarely has the act of looking back on one's past been so vividly and honestly depicted, and so richly and emotionally satisfying. You can feel the need for this film to exist in every frame, a need to understand and reflect and celebrate and mourn. It is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, entering …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
4/15/2024
This is a wonderful notional career retrospective of filmmaker "Salvador Mallo" (Antonio Banderas) who has a reached an age where he struggles with painkillers and mobility issues - and so embarks on a bit of nostalgia reliving his life. This will one day be described as a classic. Almodóvar at his most pure, grafting the fiction to the fact in such a beautifully crafted way that it is almost impossible to know how y…
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