Film: "Pain and Glory"
Pedro Almodóvar cuts straight to the heart with his intensely personal portrait of an aging director (Antonio Banderas) whose sudden creative block provokes a midlife reckoning.
Location
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Antonio Banderas deservedly won the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his miraculous, internalized portrayal of Salvador Mallo, a director not too subtly modeled on Almodóvar himself. Growing health problems—including tinnitus, migraines and spinal pain—and creative block have initiated a midlife reckoning and reflection.
Moving in and out of time, evoking Salvador’s childhood in the 1960s (featuring Penélope Cruz as his doting mother), his years of triumph in the eighties, and present-day Madrid, where he navigates new artistic challenges, Pain and Glory is both a moving summative statement on a career and an indication of more brilliant things to come. D: Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, subtitled, 2019, 1h53m
Location
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
