The twist – the first among many – is that Ignacio was Enrique’s friend in a Catholic-run boarding school. The “real” story opens as Ignacio, an actor, walks into the office of a filmmaker named Enrique. As seasoning, we get stabs at noir-style rug-pulling about blackmail and assumed identities. It’s a very special film – also, very unique in its tricky “meta” structure that combines a real story (that echoes the thread from Law of Desire, where a trans-woman accosts her abuser-priest) with an actual production of that story (which is now being made into a movie).
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In its flashbacks to early awakenings of sexuality, in its confessional story within a story, and in its “one that got away” friendship, it harks back to Law of Desire (1987) and Bad Education (2004) – and isn’t revisiting themes and images also a form of autobiography? If not personal autobiography, it’s perhaps a professional kind.īad Education came out when Almodóvar, apparently, could make nothing but masterpieces – it was preceded by All About My Mother and Talk to Her, and succeeded by Volver. One doesn’t need these anecdotal details to make the case that Pain and Glory is a deeply personal work. But deep down I know I’m talking about myself.” But it doesn’t matter.
He calls the film a work of fiction, and yet, he confessed in The Guardian : “I’m trying to convince myself I’m talking about a character.
YouTubeĪutobiography, right? Almodóvar said… not exactly. Antonio Banderas in a still from Pain and Glory.
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