Following its debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and subsequent festivals all over the globe, we can reveal the latest trailer and poster for Pedro Almodóvar’s 21st feature, Pain and Glory. The film is released in the the UK through 20th Century Fox and Pathe, and will also screen at the popular Film4 Somerset House Summer Screen event.
The film tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline, some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity; his first desire; his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s; the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense and writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable; his early discovery of cinema; and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity for him to keep on making films.
According to the press notes, Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
Related: Pain and Glory review [Sydney]
Alongside Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz appear Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas and Julieta Serrano. The film is written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, produced by Agustín Almodóvar, with an original score composed by Alberto Iglesias (Volver, The Skin I Live In, Julieta).
Look out for the already celebrated movie in cinemas from 23rd August. Here is the new trailer. You can find the new poster above.
