PAIN AND GLORY + VOLVER

Showings

Castro Theatre Thu, Jan 2, 2020 6:30 PM

Description

PAIN AND GLORY Antonio Banderas won Best Actor award at Cannes for his performance as Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker whose career and health are on the wane. The revival of one of Mallo’s greatest films sparks a renewed collaboration with lead actor Alberto Crespo (Asier Etxeandia), the fruits of which send Mallo on a collision course with his past, and might just open the door to a brighter future. With Penélope Cruz, luminous in flashbacks as Mallo’s loving, determined mother. (2019, in Spanish with English subtitles, 113 min, DCP) + VOLVER Almodóvar returned to the region of La Mancha, the place of his birth, for this highly engaging, moving story. Penélope Cruz holds the center as Raimunda, who struggles to keep the women in her family together despite a number of crises, including the murder of a stepfather and the insistent questions posed by the ghost of Raimunda's mother (Carmen Maura). (2006, in Spanish with English subtitles, 121 min, 35mm)