Pain and Glory
22/03/2019
2h

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.
Cast


Antonio Banderas
Salvador Mallo


Asier Etxeandia
Alberto Crespo


Leonardo Sbaraglia
Federico Delgado


Nora Navas
Mercedes


Julieta Serrano
Old Jacinta


Penélope Cruz
Jacinta


César Vicente
Eduardo


Asier Flores
Young Salvador


Cecilia Roth
Zulema


Susi Sánchez
Pious Woman from Paterna


Raúl Arévalo
Venancio Mallo


Pedro Casablanc
Dr. A. Galindo


Julián López
Presenter


Eva Martín
Radiologist


Sara Sierra
Conchita
Constancia Céspedes


Rosalía
Laundress Rosita
Marisol Muriel
Laundress Mari


Paqui Horcajo
Laundress Mercedes
Alba Gómez


Xavi Sáez
Man at Cinema
Aline Casagrande
Luis Calero
Father José María
Virgil-Henry Mathet
Gallerist
Chimezie Eke
Drug Dealer


Esperanza Guardado


Agustín Almodóvar
Priest at Seminary


Miguel Rivera
Eneko Galende
Boy at Seminary


Fernando Iglesias
Pianist


Esther García
Auxiliar (uncredited)
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