Pain, Glory, Love, Art, Cinema
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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Prestige, contemplative, nostalgic and character-led.
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- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Antonio BanderasSalvador Mallo
- Asier EtxeandiaAlberto Crespo
- Leonardo SbaragliaFederico Delgado
- Nora NavasMercedes
- Julieta SerranoOld Jacinta
- Penélope CruzJacinta
- César VicenteEduardo
- Asier FloresYoung Salvador
- Cecilia RothZulema
- Susi SánchezPious Woman from Paterna
Crew
- Pedro AlmodóvarDirector
- Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay
- José Luis AlcaineDirector of Photography
- Alberto IglesiasOriginal Music Composer
- Teresa FontEditor
- Esther GarcíaProducer
- Agustín AlmodóvarProducer
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