Review of Pain and Glory (2019) by Ed Frankl for The Film Stage — 16 May 2019
This is an especially personal work, anchored by the director’s on-off muse Antonio Banderas in perhaps his greatest performance and sweeps through the Spanish maestro’s recurrent themes: high melodrama and kitsch comedy, piety and carnal lust, sex and death, human pain and transcendent glory.
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This review of Pain and Glory (2019) was written by Ed Frankl and published by The Film Stage on 16 May 2019.
Pain and Glory has generally received very positive reviews.
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