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.
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Worldwide
- $37M
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Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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Box Office & Release
Pain and Glory returned 3.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $11M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $37M
- Release date
- Mar 22, 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Spain
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