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PAIN AND GLORY

By JOYCE & DON FOWLER
Posted 12/19/19

PAIN AND GLORY

* * ½

(Almodovar's latest soap opera)

Up for a Golden Globe, Almodovar's latest soap opera concerns Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director who has a number …

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PAIN AND GLORY

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PAIN AND GLORY

* * ½

(Almodovar's latest soap opera)

Up for a Golden Globe, Almodovar's latest soap opera concerns Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director who has a number of ailments that prevent him from completing his next picture. He is hooked on prescription medications and eventually heroin, which leads him into a dream-like existence where he relives his past, making the film a combination of his present problems and his difficult past.

Penelope Cruz plays his mother during his young years, where they live in a cave in Valencia.

The movie is about lost love and unfulfilled dreams, with numerous flashbacks, long conversations and boredom.

Rated R for sex and drug use.

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