PAIN AND GLORY (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Antonio Banderas (Desperado), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Raúl Arévalo (I’m So Excited!), Leonardo Sbaraglia (Red Lights), Asier Etxeandia (13 Roses), Kiti Mánver (Yankee Dudler), Cecilia Roth (The Stranger), Pedro Casablanc (Extraños), Nora Navas (Black Bread), Susi Sánchez (Julieta), Julieta Serrano (Forty Degrees in the Shade), Carmelo Gómez (Tierra), Julián López (Off Course), Paqui Horcajo (Autoréplica), Rosalía (film debut), Marisol Muriel (The Flower of My Secret), César Vicente (film debut), Asier Flores (film debut), Neus Alborch (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Pedro Almodóvar (Talk To Her), director, writer; Agustín Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In), Ricardo Marco Budé (The Pact), Esther García (Volver) and Ignacio Salazar-Simpson (Road to Santiago), producers; Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), composer; José Luis Alcaine (I’m So Excited!), cinematographer; Teresa Font (The Maidens’ Conspiracy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Salvador Mallo (Banderas) is a filmmaker going through a creative dry spell, during which he contemplates his troubled past that shaped him into the man he is in the present…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Pedro Almodóvar returns with one of his most acclaimed film in years, featuring an award-winning lead performance by Antonio Banderas that is said to be among the actor’s greatest performances.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD AUGUST 2019

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