"Dolor y Gloria" is a movie about happiness, witty, smart, and emotional. It's about love, memory, art, mothers, lovers, and most importantly about yourself, which can be frustrating and indulgent in the hands of smaller directors. But Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a master of self-reference and intertextuality: movies in movies, stories in stories, dreams in dreams. The director uses his creativity to generate electricity, and the movie runs so smoothly and so enticingly.
Director Pedro Almodóvar Caballero's world view is completely consistent with his work view. Fresh and boldly define his prestigious film. This film may be beautifully made, but it is also very dangerous. Strangely, it is called the most personal film in the director's work. It is a wonderfully detached and impersonal style.
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero has always been very personal in his works, expressing great sympathy for homosexuals, transvestites and full-dimensional female characters. However, it is only when I watch the film that I realize that even though the director is so much admired, he somehow retains the same generosity. But seen in the film, Pedro Almodóvar Caballero boldly opened the curtain, revealing his own insecurities.
