Pain and Glory

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.

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Oscars: International Feature Film Shortlist Includes ‘Parasite’, ‘Pain And Glory’, ‘Les Misérables’

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on its shortlist for the International Feature Film Oscar race. Not surprisingly, the Final 10 includes Bong Joon Ho̵…

Oscars: Spain Picks Pedro Almodovar's 'Pain and Glory' for International Feature Category

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