Pain and Glory
2019Salvador 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.
Acted in
Antonio Banderas
as Salvador Mallo
Asier Etxeandia
as Alberto Crespo
Leonardo Sbaraglia
as Federico Delgado
Nora Navas
as Mercedes
Julieta Serrano
as Old Jacinta
Penélope Cruz
as Jacinta
César Vicente
as Eduardo
Asier Flores
as Young Salvador
Cecilia Roth
as Zulema
Susi Sánchez
as Pious Woman from Paterna
Raúl Arévalo
as Venancio Mallo
Pedro Casablanc
as Dr. A. Galindo
Julián López
as Presenter
Eva Martín
as Radiologist
Sara Sierra
as Conchita
Constancia Céspedes
Rosalía
as Laundress Rosita
Marisol Muriel
as Laundress Mari
Paqui Horcajo
as Laundress Mercedes
Alba Gómez
Xavi Sáez
as Man at Cinema
Aline Casagrande
Luis Calero
as Father José María
Virgil-Henry Mathet
as Gallerist
Chimezie Eke
as Drug Dealer
Esperanza Guardado
Agustín Almodóvar
as Priest at Seminary
Miguel Rivera
Eneko Galende
as Boy at Seminary
Fernando Iglesias
as Pianist
Esther García
as Auxiliar (uncredited)