Pain and Glory

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Antonio Banderas

Salvador Mallo

Asier Etxeandia

Alberto Crespo

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Federico Delgado

Nora Navas

Mercedes

Julieta Serrano

Old Jacinta

Penélope Cruz

Jacinta

César Vicente

Eduardo

Asier Flores

Young Salvador

Cecilia Roth

Zulema

Susi Sánchez

Pious Woman from Paterna