Pain and Glory (2019)

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.

Genres: Drama

What to watch after Pain and Glory

• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) — Same subject: madrid, spain
• Volver (2006) — Pedro Almodóvar directed both
• Broken Embraces (2009) — Same subject: madrid, spain
• The Secret Life of Words (2005) — Same feel: emotional, reflective
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) — Same subject: artist
• Frida (2002)