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A Balasaur Score of 82 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 96%, Metacritic 87/100. Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 97% of the 6,965 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Ratings
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
1,949 audience votes
Key crew
- Pedro AlmodóvarDirector
- Alberto IglesiasOriginal Music Composer
- Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay
Cast
- Antonio BanderasSalvador Mallo
- Asier EtxeandiaAlberto Crespo
- Leonardo SbaragliaFederico Delgado
- Nora NavasMercedes
- Julieta SerranoOld Jacinta
- Penélope CruzJacinta
- César VicenteEduardo
- Asier FloresYoung Salvador
- Cecilia RothZulema
- Susi SánchezPious Woman from Paterna
- Raúl ArévaloVenancio Mallo
- Pedro CasablancDr. A. Galindo
Stills
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