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    • IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
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    • JUST TO BE SURE
    • JUSTIN BIEBER NEVER SAY NEVER
    • KANGAROO: A LOVE-HATE STORY
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    • KIKI, LOVE TO LOVE
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    • LIKE CRAZY
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    • LOGAN
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    • MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE
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    • MEMORIA
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    • MIA MADRE
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    • MOTHER!
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    • MOUNTAIN
    • MOVIE 43
    • MRS LOWRY & SON
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    • MUSTANG
    • MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING
    • MY COUSIN RACHEL
    • MY NAME IS KHAN
    • MY NAME IS GULPILIL
    • MY OLD LADY
    • MY ONE AND ONLY
    • MY SALINGER YEAR
    • MYSTIFY MICHAEL HUTCHENCE
    • NERUDA
    • NEVER LOOK AWAY
    • NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
    • NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU
    • NIGHTMARE ALLEY
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    • NO TIME TO DIE
    • NO ONE KILLED JESSICA
    • NOBODY HAS TO KNOW
    • NOMADLAND
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    • NORMANDY NUDE
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    • NYMPHOMANIAC VOL 1 & 11
    • OBSERVANCE
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    • OCCUPATION RAINFALL
    • OFFICIAL COMPETITION
    • OFFICIAL SECRETS
    • OLD
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    • OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
    • ON CHESIL BEACH
    • ON THE BASIS OF SEX
    • ON THE ROCKS
    • ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
    • ONE CHANCE
    • ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
    • ONLY THE DEAD
    • OPERATION FORTUNE RUSE DE GUERRE
    • OPERATION MINCEMEAT
    • OPHELIA
    • PADDINGTON
    • PADDINGTON 2
    • PAIN AND GLORY
    • PALM BEACH
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    • PASSENGERS
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    • POMPEII
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    • PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
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    • RABBIT HOLE
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    • RED DOG TRUE BLUE
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    • RICHARD JEWELL
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    • ROMA
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    • SEE YOU UP THERE
    • SELMA
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    • SERIOUSLY RED
    • SHAME
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    • SHE SAID
    • SHERPA
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    • SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD
    • SING 2
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    • SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO
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    • SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
    • SKIN
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    • SMALLFOOT
    • SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
    • SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER
    • SON OF SAUL
    • SORRY WE MISSED YOU
    • SPECTRE
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    • SPIDER MAN NO WAY HOME
    • SPIES IN DISGUISE
    • SPLICE HERE A PROJECTED ODYSSEY
    • SPLIT
    • SPOTLIGHT
    • SPRING BREAKERS
    • ST VINCENT
    • STAN & OLLIE
    • STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
    • STAR WARS THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
    • STORM BOY
    • STRANGE COLOURS
    • STREETDANCE 2
    • STREETDANCE 3D
    • SUBURBICON
    • SUFFRAGETTE
    • SUMMER 1993
    • SUMMERLAND
    • SUNDOWN
    • SUPERNOVA
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    • SWIMMING WITH MEN
    • TEA WITH THE DAMES
    • TED 2
    • TELEVISION EVENT
    • TERMINATOR: DARK FATE
    • TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY
    • THAT'S NOT ME
    • THE 355
    • THE ADDAMS FAMILY
    • THE AFTERMATH
    • THE AMAZING MAURICE
    • THE ARMSTRONG LIE
    • THE ARTIST
    • THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM
    • THE BAD GUYS
    • THE BATMAN
    • THE BBQ
    • THE BEE GEES HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART
    • THE BEGUILED
    • THE BEST OFFER
    • THE BIG SICK
    • THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
    • THE BOOKSHOP
    • THE BREAKER UPPERERS
    • THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN
    • THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY
    • THE CALL OF THE WILD
    • THE CHAPERONE
    • THE CHILDREN ACT
    • THE COMMUTER
    • THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
    • THE CONFERENCE
    • THE COURIER
    • THE CROODS: A NEW AGE
    • THE CURRENT WAR
    • THE DANCER
    • THE DARK HORSE
    • THE DARK TOWER
    • THE DARKEST MINDS
    • THE DEAD DON'T DIE
    • THE DEATH OF STALIN
    • THE DINNER
    • THE DISASTER ARTIST
    • THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED
    • THE DOUBLE
    • THE DRESSMAKER
    • THE DROVER'S WIFE THE LEGEND OF MOLLY JOHNSON
    • THE DRY
    • THE DUKE
    • THE END OF THE LINE
    • THE EQUALIZER 2
    • THE EULOGY
    • THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF THE FAKIR
    • THE EYE OF THE STORM
    • THE FABELMANS
    • THE FAREWELL
    • THE FATHER
    • THE FAVOURITE
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    • THE FIGHTER
    • THE FLIP SIDE
    • THE FLORIDA PROJECT
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    • THE FOUNDER
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    • THE FRONT RUNNER
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    • THE FURNACE
    • THE GENTLEMEN
    • THE GHOST WRITER
    • THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB
    • THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
    • THE GODMOTHER
    • THE GOOD BOSS
    • THE GOOD LIAR
    • THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE
    • THE GREAT BEAUTY
    • THE GREAT GATSBY
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • THE GREEN HORNET
    • THE GREEN PRINCE
    • THE GUERNSEY LITERARY & POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
    • THE GUILTY
    • THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS
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    • THE HEDGEHOG
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    • THE HIGH NOTE
    • THE HUNGER GAMES
    • THE HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY PART 1
    • THE HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY PART 2
    • THE HURT LOCKER
    • THE ICE ROAD
    • THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
    • THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
    • THE INSULT
    • THE INTERVIEW
    • THE INVISIBLE MAN
    • THE KEEPER
    • THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING
    • THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
    • THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
    • THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
    • THE KING'S CHOICE
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    • THE LAST MOUNTAIN
    • THE LAST VERMEER
    • THE LEGEND OF BEN HALL
    • THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
    • THE LEGO MOVIE
    • THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE
    • THE LEISURE SEEKER
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    • THE LINCOLN LAWYER
    • THE LION KING
    • THE LONE RANGER
    • THE LONELIEST PLANET
    • THE LOOK OF LOVE
    • THE LOST KING
    • THE LOST LEONARDO
    • THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN SUMMER
    • THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK
    • THE MEDDLER
    • THE MEG
    • THE MENU
    • THE MERCY
    • THE MIDWIFE
    • THE MOLE AGENT
    • THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS
    • THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US
    • THE MULE
    • THE NEST
    • THE NIGHTINGALE
    • THE NORTHMAN
    • THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS
    • THE OLD MAN & THE GUN
    • THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
    • THE PARTY
    • THE PAST
    • THE PEOPLE UPSTAIRS
    • THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
    • THE POST
    • THE PRINCESS
    • THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN
    • THE PROMISE
    • THE QUIET GIRL
    • THE RAID
    • THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
    • THE REPORT
    • THE RESCUE
    • THE REVENANT
    • THE ROCKET
    • THE ROVER
    • THE SEAGULL
    • THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
    • THE SECRET SCRIPTURE
    • THE SECRETS WE KEEP
    • THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
    • THE SHAPE OF WATER
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PAIN AND GLORY


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Picture
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar
Principal cast:
Antonio Banderas
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Asier Etxeandia
Penélope Cruz
Nora Naves
Asier Flores
Country: Spain
Classification: MA15+
Runtime: 114 mins.
Australian release date: 7 November 2019
Previewed at: Universal Pictures Theatrette, Sydney, on 4 November 2019.
 
From the first moments of the opening titles of Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar takes his audience on a stunning, kaleidoscopic, intensely personal journey into the past of a film director and writer whose memories have formulated both his best work and his present writer’s block. Magnificently played by Antonio Banderas, who won the Best Actor Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for the role, this is a portrait of an artistic man who has lost the will to create, his fundamental raison d’être. In a series of flashbacks to his childhood in the 1960s and his early success in the ‘80s, we see key events in his life unfold, culminating in an epiphany that appears to restore his creativity. “I think that this is Antonio’s best work since Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!,” says Almodóvar. “Pain and Glory is, in my opinion, his rebirth as an actor and the start of a new era. I hope that no one misunderstands me. Antonio is still one of the actors who is best at listening to and looking at his companions in a shot, but on this occasion the fire in his eyes comes from deeper. All of us who witnessed his performance, day by day, were moved. …the spirit of the character is the opposite to the bravura of the characters he has played to date. Profound, subtle, with a very varied gallery of minute gestures, he has pulled off a very difficult character, full of risks.” For his part, when speaking of the auteur director with whom he’s now collaborated eight times, Banderas explains, “The feelings I had in the ‘80s [when they made five films together], and had again, is that he's pushing you to the limits: that you are on the verge of a cliff. You are in a situation of vertigo.”

When we first meet Salvador Mallo (Banderas), he’s sitting underwater on the bottom of a swimming pool, remembering an event from his childhood (a glorious performance by young Asier Flores), watching as his doting mother Jacinta (Penélope Cruz) and other women from his poor village sing as they wash sheets by the riverside. It’s a scene of sublime beauty and simplicity and one that is obviously treasured by the adult Salvador. And we soon realise why. In his current life, the famous director has become a virtual recluse, wracked with back pain, suffering from tinnitus and migraines, depressed and existing on a daily regimen of analgesics. Pain has stopped him from working and, without his creative juices flowing, his life has almost shut down. His assistant, Mercedes (Nora Naves), tries to get him to respond to some of his many invitations but only one piques his interest, a screening of a restored print of his hit film, Sabor, made 32 years earlier. Considering this, Salvador resolves to make amends with the film’s leading actor, Alberto Crespo (Asier Etxeandia), from whom he’s been famously estranged ever since, and this, in turn, leads to a meeting with Federico (Leonardo Sbaraglia), his great love from the 1980s when he was at the height of his success, and who he hasn’t seen since. These key events in his life drive Salvador deeper into his reveries and self-reflection, culminating in a dramatic revelation.

As is the norm, many of Almodóvar’s regular crew worked on this title. Alberto Iglesias was once again the composer of the gorgeous score, which was written for string sextet plus piano and clarinet. Its use is spare but it’s all the more powerful for it and it is augmented by traditional and popular songs from the director’s past. Deservedly, Iglesias won the award for Best Soundtrack at Cannes. José Luis Alcane has also returned for cinematographic duty and his lens has captured both the darkness of the subject’s current life and the colour and light of Salvador’s village childhood and his life in Madrid in the ‘80s, when possibilities seemed endless with the return of democracy to Spain.

Almodóvar has acknowledged that the genesis of his script was autobiographical, saying that, “At first, I took myself as a reference but, once you start writing, fiction lays down its rules and makes itself independent of the origin, as has always happened to me when I’ve dealt with other themes with real references. Reality provides me with the first lines, but I have to invent the rest.” He has, indeed, had back surgery and does suffer from migraines and tinnitus; he also wanted Banderas to look similar to him and to wear his style of clothing and the crew used his house and chattels for Salvador’s but he states, “I remember that during rehearsals I said to Antonio: ‘If you think that in any sequence it’ll help if you imitate me, you can do it.’ Antonio said no, that it wasn’t necessary. And he was right, his character wasn’t me, but it was inside me.” Certainly, Banderas’ gaunt face and the haunted look in his eyes are his alone, even if his character’s demeanour is a reflection of Almodovar's.

For anyone who lives with constant pain and the depression that can accompany it, Pain and Glory could be confronting but, hopefully, they will find it comforting because Salvador finds a way to use his mind to overcome those negatives. Certainly, the denouement of the film is uplifting and an acknowledgement of the power of art to transform lives. Pain and Glory is the work of a director at the height of his abilities. And don’t worry, although it may feel like it, it is not a farewell to Almodóvar’s career - the filmmaker is already working on future projects.


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