Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory will open the Miami Film Festival’s fall season extension, Miami Film Festival GEMS 2019, scheduled for October 10 to 13, at MDC’s Tower Theater Miami.
(Pain and Glory) Dolor Y Gloria (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a director not too subtly modeled on Almodóvar himself, whose growing health problems—including tinnitus, migraines, and spinal pain—and creative block have initiated a midlife reckoning. Moving in and out of time, evoking Salvador’s childhood in the sixties (featuring Penélope Cruz as his doting mother); his years of triumph in the eighties; and present-day Madrid, where he navigates new artistic challenges, Pain and Gloryis both a moving summative statement on a career and an indication of more brilliant things to come.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Genre(s) Foreign Language Film (Spanish)
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Pedro Almodóvar’s PAIN AND GLORY will Open Miami Film Festival GEMS 2019
Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)
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46 Feature Films Selected for European Film Awards 2019
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57th New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate of 20 Films From Top Filmmakers
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Toronto Film Festival 2019 Reveals First Films Selected for Gala and Special Presentations
Blackbird directed by Roger Michell Films directed by Taika Waititi, Marielle Heller, James Mangold, Rian Johnson, Marjane Satrapi, John Crowley, Alejandro Amenábar, Thom Zimny & Bruce Springsteen, Atom Egoyan, Chinonye Chukwu, Kasi Lemmons, Noah Baumbach, Craig Brewer, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Destin Daniel Cretton, Michael Winterbottom, Armando Iannucci, Steven Soderbergh, Todd Phillips, Lorene Scafaria, Fernando Meirelles, and Roger Michell are among the first round of titles selected for the Gala and Special Presentations programs at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. This first batch of films from the 2019 Official Selection features 18 Galas and 38 Special Presentations.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s PAIN AND GLORY Kicks Off Lineup of Hong Kong’s Summer International Film Festival 2019
Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar’s passionate and deeply personal gem that won Antonio Banderas the Best Actor award in Cannes will open this year’s Summer International Film Festival (SummerIFF) on August 13.
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2019 Melbourne Intl Film Festival Unveils Largest Lineup Ever, Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL to Close
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Pedro Almodóvar will Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice Film Fest
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Antonio Banderas to Receive CineMerit Award at Munich Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival 2019 Awards – PARASITE Wins Palme d’Or
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Penélope Cruz to Receive Donostia Award at San Sebastian Film Festival
Penélope Cruz Penélope Cruz will be all over the 67th San Sebastian Festival. The Spanish actress will receive the Festival’s important accolade, the Donostia Award – recognizing the career and contribution of great figures to the world of cinema since 1986, and her image is featured on the Festival poster.
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2019 Cannes Film Festival Unveils Official Selection, with Films by Pedro Almodóvar, Xavier Dolan, Terrence Malic
A HIDDEN LIFE, Terrence Malick The Official Selection of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival was unveiled this morning at the annual press conference. In addition to opening night film – Jim Jamusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, the competition lineup includes new releases from Pedro Almodóvar, Xavier Dolan, Ken Loach, and Terrence Malick. Films premiering out of competition include Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell.