Pain and Glory

2019 · 1h54 · Film

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Cecilia Roth, Susi Sánchez

Ideal when you feel… Sad / low Exhausted

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.

Original title

Dolor y gloria

Original language

Spanish

Screenplay

Pablo Buratti, Pedro Almodóvar

Music

Alberto Iglesias

Cinematography

José Luis Alcaine

Cast

Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Cecilia Roth, Susi Sánchez, Raúl Arévalo, Pedro Casablanc

Updated July 22, 2026

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