• Films,  Review

    Pain and Glory – review

    This evening our Cineworld unlimited screening was Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory.  A Spanish language film starring Antonio Banderas as Salvador an ageing film director who has health issues and has seemingly given up on everything.   The film moves through his life in various narrative strands the present where we learn about his health issues and why he has stopped writing and directing. His childhood which we see non-sequentially.   Penelope Cruz plays his mother in the flashbacks and her performance is nuanced and exquisite. The film opens with the young Salvador watching his mother and her friends sing as they wash their laundry in the river. Grudges that…