Film Summer Festival: Dolor y Gloria

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An elderly director looks back on the past and the choices he made along the way. Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) has not made a film in years, but fortunately he can still live on the successes he enjoyed as a director. When an old film of his is taken out of the dust, it brings him into contact with former actor Alberto (Asier Etxeandia). The two are finally reunited after a falling out long ago. The meeting triggers a chain reaction, in which the past returns into Salvador’s life. Thinking about his childhood and his mother (Penélope Cruz), he is forced to face his demons.

The Oscar-winning Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar (including Los Abrazon Rotos, Volver, Todo Sobre Mi Madre) called his 21st film the most personal to date. Dolor y gloria premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where Antonio Banderas won the Best Actor award. After Los Amantes Pasajeros (2013), Dolor y gloria is the second collaboration between Banderas and Cruz in a film by Almodóvar.