Filmmaker Focus: Pain and Glory by Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void created by the incapacity to keep on making films. This SHOUT program is sponsored by Birmingham AIDS Outreach.

Credits

Director(s):

Pedro Almodóvar

Producer(s):

Agustín Almodóvar

Cast:

Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz

Sound:

Sergio Burmann

Composer(s):

Alberto Iglesias