Pain and Glory (2019)

Banderas is a semi-retired director suffering from chronic pain of all types, causing him to rarely leave his showpiece of a home. He finds himself nostalgic, thinking often of his childhood. Chunks of the film are lengthy flashbacks to his early years. He is inspired to reconnect with one of his actors with whom he'd had a falling out decades earlier. The actor, in turn, inspires him to try heroin for the first time.

Gary and I watched this together and he said aloud at one point, "I am over the moon about this movie." The performances were perfection and the storytelling just got into our bones. This is Almodovar and Banderas at their very best.

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