A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 70 wins & 182 nominations total
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- TriviaJulieta Serrano and Antonio Banderas already played mother and son, more than 30 years before, in another two movies by Pedro Almodóvar: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and Matador (1986)
- GoofsWhen Eduardo draws Salvador, he sits right in front of him, but when the drawing is shown the angle is oblique a bit above from the left.
- Quotes
Salvador Mallo: The nights that coincide several pains, those nights I believe in God and I pray to him. The days when I only suffer a type of pain I'm an atheist.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 2020 Golden Globe Awards (2020)
- SoundtracksA tu vera
Written by Juan Solano (as Juan Solano Pedrero) and Rafael de León (as Rafael de Leon Arias de Saavedra)
Performed by Rosalía and Penélope Cruz
Featured review
The 8½ of our time, brought by a brilliant filmmaker.
I. Short review:
Half autobiographic, half fiction, Almodóvar's most intimate work is an european drama carved with humor and intense emotions you wouldn't want to miss, Antonio Banderas is a tour de force.
II. Full review:
Since this year's Cannes Film Festival celebration in which Pain and Glory competed for the Palm d'Or for best picture and supposedly the favorite to win, I took quite interest in Almodóvar's new film, also my personal experiences with two of his films that I've seen, 'Talk to Her' (which I think is an absolute masterpiece), and the very creative thriller 'The Skin I Live In' (also starring Antonio Banderas), were strong factors of that interest.
The film tells the story of a depressed and aching director that reconnects with old friends and people he used to care about, at the time that he reflects on his humble but enlightning past in several ways, all from the perspective of his gloomy and lonesome present.
Pain and Glory escalates in a ladder of triumphs, since its mesmerizing soundtrack by Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), an astonishing cinematography by José Luis Alcaine, a masterful direction and gripping script by Pedro Almodóvar, to its top and greatest gift of all: a colossal performance by Antonio Banderas, which justifies his award for best actor in Cannes 2019.
Half autobiographic, half fiction, Almodóvar's most intimate work is an european drama carved with humor and intense emotions you wouldn't want to miss, Antonio Banderas is a tour de force.
II. Full review:
Since this year's Cannes Film Festival celebration in which Pain and Glory competed for the Palm d'Or for best picture and supposedly the favorite to win, I took quite interest in Almodóvar's new film, also my personal experiences with two of his films that I've seen, 'Talk to Her' (which I think is an absolute masterpiece), and the very creative thriller 'The Skin I Live In' (also starring Antonio Banderas), were strong factors of that interest.
The film tells the story of a depressed and aching director that reconnects with old friends and people he used to care about, at the time that he reflects on his humble but enlightning past in several ways, all from the perspective of his gloomy and lonesome present.
Pain and Glory escalates in a ladder of triumphs, since its mesmerizing soundtrack by Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), an astonishing cinematography by José Luis Alcaine, a masterful direction and gripping script by Pedro Almodóvar, to its top and greatest gift of all: a colossal performance by Antonio Banderas, which justifies his award for best actor in Cannes 2019.
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- Language
- Also known as
- Đau Đớn Và Vinh Quang
- Filming locations
- Paterna, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain(underground dwelling)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,567,338
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $152,636
- Oct 6, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $37,359,689
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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