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PAIN & GLORY depicts an aging filmmaker struggling to separate the act of creation from the act of remembering.
PAIN & GLORY is a Sony Pictures Classics release, runs 113 minutes, is in Spanish with English subtitles, and is rated R.


About the film

PAIN & GLORY details a series of reencounters, each experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some occur in the flesh, others in memory. He remembers his childhood in the 60's, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity: the first desire; his first love in the Madrid of the 80's, the pain of a breakup where love is still alive and intense. He finds that writing is the only therapy. He recounts the early discovery of cinema, and his incapacity to continue making films. PAIN & GLORY is a reflection on the act of creation, about the difficulty of separating it from life and about the passions that give art meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need, he finds his salvation. 

About Director Pedro Almodóvar 
Pedro Almodóvar was born in the heart of La Mancha in the 50's. At seventeen, he moved to Madrid with a very specific project in mind: to study cinema and direct films. He wrote, loved, acted with the mythical independent theatre group Los Goliardos, made short films, collaborated with various underground magazines, wrote stories and was a member of a parodic punk-rock group, Almodóvar and McNamara. His personal explosion coincided with the explosion of the democratic Madrid in the mythic period the world knew as La Movida. In 1980, he opened Pepi, Luci, Bom. In 1986, he founded the production company El Deseo with his brother Agustín Almodóvar. Their first project was Law of Desire. In 1988, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown brought him international recognition. With All About my Mother, he won his first Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and many other prizes all over the world. Three years later, Talk to Her had the same or better fortune, with an Academy Award for Best Original Script and another bunch of international prizes. In 2004, Bad Education was chosen to open the Festival de Cannes. In 2006, he presents Volver in Competition of the Festival de Cannes, where it got two awards. His latest production to date is Julieta and he is already working on his new script.
 

Publicity Contacts: 
Larsen Associates
Karen Larsen, Will Zang, Nikolaj Leszczynski
Karen@Larsenassc.com, Will@Larsenassc.com, Nikolaj@larsenassc.com 
415-957-1205

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