Pedro Almodóvar cuts straight to the heart with his intensely personal latest. Antonio Banderas won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of Salvador Mallo, a director modeled on Almodóvar himself. Evoking his childhood in the sixties (featuring Penélope Cruz as his doting mother); his years of triumph in the eighties; and present day Madrid, where he navigates new artistic challenges, Pain and Glory is both a summative statement on a career and an indication of more brilliant things to come.
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