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Pain and Glory
2019 1h 54m Pedro Almodóvar

Pain and Glory

★ 7.5 IMDb
Drama Made in Europe
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.
Production DesignerAntxón Gómez

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Selection 32nd European Film Awards
Won European Film Award for Best Production Designer
Nominated European Film Award for Best Actor
Nominated European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film
Nominated International Submission to the Academy Awards
Nominated European Film Award for Best Film
Nominated European Film Award for Best Director
Nominated European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
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