Pain and Glory

A film director in decline is invited to present an old movie and starts remembering his mother, a lover, and the body that will not let him work. Almodóvar makes the memories as present as the apartment. Antonio Banderas plays Salvador at the speed of someone in pain. Penélope Cruz is the mother in the earlier years. The Sony Pictures Classics trailer is the pool and the screening. The film is a reconciliation that does not pretend the work will return as it was.