
Bad Education(2004)
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school.


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.

Antonio Banderas
Salvador Mallo

Asier Etxeandia
Alberto Crespo

Leonardo Sbaraglia
Federico Delgado

Nora Navas
Mercedes

Julieta Serrano
Old Jacinta

Penélope Cruz
Jacinta

César Vicente
Eduardo

Asier Flores
Young Salvador

Cecilia Roth
Zulema

Susi Sánchez
Pious Woman from Paterna
Pain and Glory is a drama film released in 2019 exploring themes of drug abuse, madrid, spain, cinema on cinema, movie business, creative crisis, lgbt. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, it stars Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia. 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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