Antonio Banderas is Salvador Mallo, a famous filmmaker who is more enduring life than actually living it. His body is riddled with aliments and his creative muse has escaped him. When he reunites with an actor he worked with many years ago, Alberto Crespo (Asier Etxeandia), they end their estrangement and reconnect.

Felling guilty from the years apart. Salvador gives his actor friend a script based on his life story and Alberto turns it into a one man play. This play sets even more people and memories into play. The architecture of the film cleverly blends current time, flashbacks and movie scenes to move things forward in what is a leisurely story arc.

Missing a lot of the zing that Almodóvar is usually known for, Pain & Glory slows things down to an elderly pace and exemplifies the struggle that marks a creative mind in decline. This seriousness is resolved with a nod towards redemption and reinforces the Bard’s adage that, All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.

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Salvador Mallo is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn’t allow it and, if he can’t film again, his life has no meaning.

In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

Starring Antonio Banderas, PAIN AND GLORY is in Cinemas November 7.
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