Pain and glory's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
A beautiful, full-hearted celebration of the craft of filmmaking.
Fotogramas
A masterpiece (..) Almodóvar reaches a degree of purification, of formal essentiality, of refinement at the height of very few masters of cinema.
El Periódico
There are some controlated and emotional moments, but not less intense (...) A perfect narrative mechanism (...) Almodóvar fix with grace everything related to Salvador childhood and the relationship with her mother.
Indiewire
The filmmaker?s best and most personal movie in years.
Variety
A mature work of meticulously tuned meta-fiction.
Los Angeles Times
But if the tone is more restrained, more elegiac, and lacking that signature Almodóvar outrageousness, the emotional force still knocks you sideways.
Cinemanía
Beast that Almodóvar made in the last few years (...) 'Dolor y gloria' might be the film the ones who don't like Amodóvar's filming would like.
The Guardian
As ever, Almodóvar has made a film about pleasure, which is itself a pleasure: witty, intelligent and sensuous.
The Hollywood Reporter
It?s unlikely to be remembered with any great fondness by all but Almodovar diehards, its self-regarding inwardness suggesting that he?s struggling, as his hero is here, to find something new to say.
El País
It has some beautiful moments, but I remain indifferent to Salvador Mallo suffering.