There are still more than 20 days before the arrival of 2020,
Time Magazine selected the top ten films of 2019,
Director Almodóvar's "Pain and Glory" is on the list,
Some friends may not remember who Almodóvar is.
But his movie, you must have seen:
Poor education
Douban score 8.3
The Law of Desire La Ley del deseo
Douban score 8.1
Angel of Death El ángel
Douban score 7.4
Everything about my mother
Douban score 8.4
And this time,
Chinese film fans scored a high score of 8.6 for "Pain and Glory"
(30,916 people rated it, better than 97% of same-sex films),
It is the highest score of all Almodóvar's films on Douban.
Pain and Glory tells the life story of a film director in his later years, including his first love, second love, mother, death, and some of the actors he has worked with, spanning the 60s, 80s and present, and a sense of unsuitable emptiness has prevented him from making films now.
This is actually Almodóvar's affectionate review of his life.
Actor Salvador Marlowe (played by Antonio Banderas),
He was a well-known film director.
But in his later years, his life suffered one misfortune after another.
On the one hand, his physical functions deteriorated and he was deeply tormented by illness.
Insomnia, tinnitus, chronic pharyngitis, peptic ulcer, endogenous asthma, sciatica,
Tendonitis, tinnitus, migraines and other large and small diseases........
Constantly torturing this elderly man.
On the other hand, the death of the mother, the increasing bottleneck in creation,
He can no longer create with peace of mind.
Physical pain and mental stress,
He gradually developed anxiety disorders, so much so that he became addicted to drugs.
For an artist who was once at the peak,
Marlowe's twilight years can be said to be full of pain.
But just recently,
A film archive approached Marlowe and offered to re-release his 30-year-old classic Taste.
This opportunity made Marlowe, who had been idle at home for a long time, very excited,
The story unfolds...