With 'Pain and Glory,' Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar have a collaboration that now stretches back nearly 40 years.
Two standing ovations. When the film “Pain and Glory” played at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, the audience first rose to its feet when filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar and star Antonio Banderas came out to introduce the movie and then gave a longer, rousing standing ovation after the film.
Their professional reunion came on the 2011 film “The Skin I Live In,” a perverse thriller with Hitchcock overtones. “Pain and Glory” is their eighth movie together and is a deeply personal and earnest film from Almodóvar, with Banderas playing a fictionalized version of the filmmaker himself.The film premiered in the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered broad critical acclaim and Banderas received the best actor prize.
“I always based my stories in something real, but usually the reality was outside of me,” Almodóvar said. “There was a newspaper story, something that I heard, a book that I read, but it was always based on something real. But this was the first time that reality wasreality. Once I grew comfortable with that situation, for me it was mixed up with fiction. So I felt completely distant from the material.
The character of Mallo is able to do more than Almodóvar could in real life — “He’s more Pedro than Pedro,” as Banderas put it — able to say things the filmmaker “wanted to say and never said.” Such as when the character “has said to his mother these things that [Almodóvar] never said to his mother.”
“Probably to call them tricks is not right, because they are not tricks, but things that you know have a certain effect. And so, let’s jump into another universe. Let’s start from nothing, creating a new you. And that ultimately is going to be [the character].”In one of the key scenes in the movie, Salvador goes to visit an actor he worked with earlier in his career before a falling out.
The themes in “Pain and Glory” regarding making the most of the time you have left as you get older is not lost on Banderas. Since he had a heart attack in 2017, he has seen his perspective change.
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