Pain and Glory (2019)

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. (imdb)
Genre: Drama
AKA: Dolor y gloria
Country: Spain
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
Written By: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Serrano, Raúl Arévalo, Julián López, Nora Navas, Asier Etxeandia, Eva Martín

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Highly autobiographical, as you may expect from Almodovar, and this story seems criss-crossy and pedestrian at times, though there's a delight in the oftentimes lack of conflict. Banderas is great and was heavily praised for this, but Etxeandia deserves equal praise, acting as a more emotional counterpart to Banderas' more muted and reflective role.
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About the degree to which we are or are not prisoners of both unresolved past difficulties and the accumulation of bodily frailties, and the way each of them tends to reinforce the other. Impressively composed movie, as always in the latter part of Almodóvar's career. Perhaps the main weakness is that the dialogue is a little lacklustre.
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Solid, but for some reason I just don't feel Almodovar.
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The construction of a personal self, his memories, the many images that compose his life experiences; it's a unique work with some very touching moments.
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really like how it movies between relationships and resolutions (or are they?) but the whole movie is made for that final image. his life a movie fr...
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The ending is some minor miracle, re-contextualising everything that came before it in such a satisfying and nourishing manner. In terms of pleasant surprises, I really enjoyed how quickly the film went from Alberto getting permission to put on the play to the play occurring; I was expecting the play to be the climax of the film, to build up to it over time, where Salvador fully confronts his past upon seeing it shown back to him, and instead my expectations were completely subverted.
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It's a good biography but I've seen better ones of directors wistfully looking back at their country youth. I'm not a fan of drug use in movies so I was glad they didn't do the typical drug trip surreal scene. Cruz did a good job. I didn't pay enough attention to the film to remember much.
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About making future and life by struggling in traces of the past and unavoidable dysfunction of the body. Vivid colors.
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