'Pain and glory' trivia and fun facts
Inspiration
'Pain and glory' is inspired in '8½'
Partners in crime
'Pain And Glory' is the eighth collaboration between Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas and the the sixth with Penélope Cruz. Almodóvar has worked with Banderas in 'Laberinto de pasiones' (1982), 'Matador' (1985), 'La ley del deseo' (1986), 'Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios' (1988), 'Átame' (1990), 'La piel que habito' (2011) y 'Los amantes pasajeros' (2013). His films with Penélope Cruz are 'Carne Trémula' (1997), 'Todo sobre mi madre' (1999), 'Volver' (2006), 'Los abrazos rotos' (2009) y 'Los amantes pasajeros' (2013).
Almodóvar Girl
Julieta Serrano's first collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar in almost thirty years. They had previously worked together on many of his 1980s films: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980), Entre tinieblas (1983), Matador (1986), ¡Átame! (1989) and, most famously, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios" (1988).
Real facts
Almodovar told to El País that some stories on the film are real. For example, the one related with his mother shroud.
'Rosalia' phenomenon
The cameo from Rosalia, the Spanish singer who has succeed in the national and international panorama with her last work, 'El mal querer', has been shown in the second trailer, creating huge expectation.
Mother and son
Julieta Serrano and Antonio Banderas already played mother and son, more than 30 years before, in another two movies by Pedro Almodóvar: 'Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios' and 'Matador'.
Sounds like Goya
The first reactions from the critics have been very warming, even predicting Antonio Banderas to be next winner at GOYA 2020.