Pain and Glory

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

“It is always difficult to play somebody who exists,” Antonio Banderas said about playing a filmmaker inspired by Pedro Almodóvar in Pain and Glory. Almodóvar himself directed the film - titled Dolor y gloria in Spanish- about a filmmaker who reflects on the choices he has made in life and his series of re-encounters with the people in his past – a fictionalized autobiographical story which the director defines as “auto-fiction.

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“Once they adopt you it’s forever,” quipped Pedro Almodóvar during his press conference about the affection shown him by audiences here. “No public is as loyal as the French.