Film Review: ‘Pain and Glory’

Renowned director Pedro Almodóvar’s semi-self-portrait

Antonia Banderas as a filmmaker, has a memory triggered by a picture of a body reading, in “Pain and Glory.” Sony Pictures

R | 1h 53min | Drama | 4 October 2019 (USA)

With a film career that spans many years, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar at 70 years of age has a wealth of wisdom to draw from. With his trademark spiky hairstyle, Almodóvar first tasted worldwide prominence with his snarky black comedy “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988).