Drama
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.
Directors
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
Raúl Arévalo
Venancio Mallo
Pedro Casablanc
Dr. A. Galindo
Julián López
Presenter
Eva Martín
Radiologist
Sara Sierra
Conchita
Rosalía
Laundress Rosita
Marisol Muriel
Laundress Mari
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This is a wonderful notional career retrospective of filmmaker "Salvador Mallo" (Antonio Banderas) who has a reached an age where he struggles with painkillers and mobility issues - and so embarks on a bit of nostalgia reliving his life. This will one day be described as a classic. Almodóvar at his most pure, grafting the fiction to the fact in such a beautifully crafted way that it is almost impossible to know how you feel whilst you watch it. Banderas is wonderful. He delivers the emotion and the humour - and there is enough of the latter to adequately temper the more emotional aspects of his performance - with consummate skill. Penélope Cruz who always seems more stunning every time she appears on screen plays his mother and even sings - what more could you ask for? In theory, there ought be little joy in this retrospective, but the self-discovery delivers a surprising amount of fulfilment and there is humour to be found here, too.
Geronimo196715 Apr, 2024
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