Pain and Glory: Great for Spain and Story…
The newest Pedro Almodóvar movie, Pain and Glory, focuses on an aging and debilitated filmmaker, Salvador Mallo (played by Antonio Banderas) reflecting on his life in his old age.

Abhijit Shandilya, a journalist, travels from Mumbai to Majuli, Assam, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his friend, Sridhar Ranjan, an activist, and unearths a web of dark secrets
The newest Pedro Almodóvar movie, Pain and Glory, focuses on an aging and debilitated filmmaker, Salvador Mallo (played by Antonio Banderas) reflecting on his life in his old age.
This anti-love young adult movie includes mature topics and dialogue.
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
The latest installment in the beloved media franchise is a unique stylized mesh of humor and heart.
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