Pain and Glory
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… From TMDB
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36 of 36 · most liked first2020s: Tár, Drive My Car, Lovers Rock, and honestly Past Lives because that ending was so good it made me think the whole movie was 20x better than it actually was in the last ten years: Pain and Glory
unlabelledView post →THE ROOM NEXT DOOR is the less good version of TASTE OF CHERRY which did what Almodovar's film is trying to do without affect or contrivance. With the exception of PAIN AND GLORY, I must confess I've never fully vibed with his magic-realist Sisk-surdity so mileage will surely vary.
unlabelledView post →Almodóvar's bleakest film. Another swing at autofiction but all the warmth of Pain and Glory has been removed as the self-laceration takes precedence. A merciless film about the artistic process that seems at first to be painfully honest and ends rather opaque. Almodóvar hiding from his gimlet eye.
unlabelledView post →QTP with some of your favorite film shots of all time some recent-ish movies with shots I love Pain and Glory 2019 Shin Godzilla 2016 Decision to Leave 2022 Hundreds of Beavers 2022
unlabelledView post →30 Gay Films for Pride 2. 6/2 - Pain and Glory Something I needed to watch as a 38yo recovering addict. Probably the most stunning film I’ve seen in recent memory. I have a renewed hope in my sense of self, my artistic process, and the belief that life can be beautiful if you let it be.
unlabelledView post →Watched Pedro Almodovar's excellent PAIN AND GLORY last night, and in the "making of" I noticed that my book on FILM NOIR (in Spanish) was on the shelves in one of the scenes.
unlabelledView post →30 Days of Queer Cinema - Day 14 | PAIN AND GLORY #PrideMonth #Pride #QueerCinema
unlabelledView post →I contributed a chapter to the latest issue of Eureka on Pedro Almodovar. My chapter focuses on how the film Pain and Glory offers a way of queering pain as a creative force. www.seidosha.co.jp/book/index.p...
unlabelledView post →Late-stage Almodóvar is one of my favourite directors right now and The Room Next Door does not disappoint. The movie synthesizes the themes of aging and reminiscing youth of Pain and Glory and the more overt political messaging of Parallel Mothers in a quiet but touching package.
unlabelledView post →Pain and Glory (2019) Banderas wears loss, longing, and regret so well in this gorgeous movie about an aging filmmaker with chronic pain and a new heroin habit reminiscing about his boyhood, his career, and the one that got away. Motherfucker is transcendent. youtu.be/pEjFOkCKb3g?...
unlabelledView post →🏳️🌈Choose 30 of your favorite LGBTQ films of all time. One film per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters or covers. Day 26: Pain and Glory #FilmSky #Moviesky
unlabelledView post →Not supporting the NYT, so here’s my ballot: - Holy Motors (2012) - Somewhere (2009) - Hanna (2011) - Carlos (2010) - Nocturnal Animals (2016) - Abuse of Weakness (2013) - Personal Shopper (2016) - The Big Short (2015) - Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012) - Pain and Glory (2019)
unlabelledView post →The emails are smokescreens. Brazil has a long and ongoing history with white supremacy. This reminds me of a few years ago when some people where saying that Antonio Banders is a person of color following his Oscar nomination for the film Pain and Glory (cool film). www.npr.org/2020/02/09/8...
unlabelledView post →If you haven't seen it, I suggest you watch the movie Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory?). It is a movie he wrote and directed inspired by his own life. It can be read as a shocking text about aging and facing death. If you see the movie, please share what you think about it.
unlabelledView post →In many ways it obviously leads itself to comparison with Pain and Glory, which is the better film, but I'm keen to rewatch this soon. I think you're right about it being a little flat, I also felt like there was more to say somehow, at the end. Strange, considering it wasnt particularly short.
unlabelledView post →Awesome movie. It’s the best movie Leonardo Sbaraglia ever made aside from the famous kiss in Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory. I still have the VHS version.
unlabelledView post →If you’re open to at least one more Almodovar, Pain and Glory is probably one of his best (top 2 for me). It’s such a beautiful film
unlabelledView post →Sentimental Value - I'll take every film like this you've got. Reminded me of Pain and Glory. Love fucked up writers and fucked up familial rifts. A Real Pain - Not doing 'Jesse Eisenberg comedy' in the way you might expect/fear. Superb work and a strong partner to Fleishman is in Trouble.
unlabelledView post →A few more: - Pedro Almodóvar's 2019 film, Pain and Glory, is on Tubi - Bi Gan's Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey into Night are on Criterion Channel - Tsui Hark's 1997 romp, Double Team, is on Netflix - John Singleton's 1997 drama, Rosewood, is on Kanopy - Shin Godzilla 4k remaster on HBO
unlabelledView post →Oh ffs. "PAIN AND GLORY!" (he screamed while hiding his copy of The Rock's greatest film.)
unlabelledView post →#bestgayever film selection: Pain and Glory 2019 Pedro Almodóvar The Spanish filmmaker once again teaming up with Antonio Banderas, this time to play a fictional director who is in the middle of a creative crisis reflecting on his past.
unlabelledView post →( #AsierEtxeandia in the movie Pain and Glory)
unlabelledView post →Pain and Glory was magnificent, such a beautiful film. I can still remember the first Almoldovar I saw at the cinema, Carne Tremula; so good.
unlabelledView post →What’s not to love with film Tony starring Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers), Emilia Jones (CODA) & Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)? But, whilst I had not heard of Anthony Bourdain before, Peter Bradshaw’s critique of shabby artistic licence & a lack of decency over his later suicide is quite right.
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 90s - Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai 00s - Deja Vu 10s - Pain and Glory 20s - Ambulance
unlabelledView post →Shit i've been watching... Pain and Glory, 2019 - ★★★★½ Watched on Monday May 11, 2026. https://letterboxd.com/groschi/film/pain-and-glory/ #Film #Movies #Cinema #CineMastodon @film
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Pain and Glory 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Foreign) (iMDB) 7.4 Cast: Asier Etxeandia, Julieta Serrano, Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Kiti Mánver, Nora Navas
unlabelledView post →🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on October 4! What's your fave? 1. Joker 2. White Bird 3. The Longest Day 4. Pain and Glory Check out all 61 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama
unlabelledView post →https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2-6HOdySFA&pp=ygUkcGFpbiBhbmQgZ2xvcnkgYWxtb3NvdmFyIGRhbmNlIGFjZW5l #film #PainAndGlory #PedroAlmosovar
unlabelledView post →#bestgayever films: Pain and Glory 2019 An aging Spanish film director in the middle of a creative crisis revisits memorable events of his past. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia Director- Pedro Almodóvar Subtitled
unlabelledView post →Now playing...my first Pedro Almodóvar film Pain and Glory
unlabelledView post →Recent watch: The Flower Of My Secret (1995). Initiates a cycle of later Almodóvar films, switching to novelistic melodramas that narratively re-emerge in All About My Mother, Volver and Pain and Glory. Marisa Parades is superb in this Sirkian tale of a writer facing existential crisis. #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →DUINO "… exists on a similar bicurious wavelength as films like Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory..." Cain Noble-Davies review Duino, screening at Mardi Gras Film Festival on 16 + 22 February Curious? Read on...
unlabelledView post →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 you feel whilst you watch it. Banderas is wonderful. He delivers the emotion and…
positive · AI labelView post →Freeview (UK) #film of the day : Pedro Almodovar's drama Pain and Glory (2019 108 mins.) starring Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia. [BBC2 12.10 Saturday and iPlayer for 60 days] www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
unlabelledView post →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 the last act of their lives, looking back at what they have created and the…
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