The home release details for Pedro Almodóvar’s highly regarded Cannes-debuting Pain & Glory have been revealed. Sadly, it doesn’t look like the release will come with a vast number of special features. Details below.
Salvador Mallo is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn’t allow it and, if he can’t film again, his life has no meaning.
The mixture of medications, along with an occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his day prostrate. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, and the struggles and improvising his Mother made so that the family could survive. The appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
Related: Pain & Glory review
The DVD, Blu-ray etc for Pain & Glory will come with two trailers for the film and a behind the scenes featurette, the length of which we do not currently know.
Digital is set for 16th December while the physical formats, DVD and BD will be released on 13th January.
Expected box-art below.
