Salvador Mallo: The nights that coincide several pains, those nights I believe in God and I pray to him. The days when I only suffer a type of pain I'm an atheist.
Salvador Mallo: Alberto, gossip ages, like people.
Salvador Mallo: Writing is like drawing but with letters.
Salvador Mallo: Life disgusts me like a useless medicine. And it is then when I feel with clear visions how easy it would be to get away from this tedium if I had the simple strength of wanting to really push him away.
Federico Delgado: "Love is not enough to save the person you love." It's in your monologue.

Salvador Mallo: Let's not talk about the monologue, it's a very sad text.
Salvador Mallo: This time I will not fail you, mom.
Alberto Crespo: You forget I'm an actor... and I suffer very well.
Alberto Crespo: It took a lot of work to borrow this jacket!
Zulema: Its your eyes that have changed, darling. The film is the same.
Salvador Mallo: You have to avoid sentimentality. Control the emotion. Don't cry, actors take any opportunity to cry. The better actor isn't the one who cries, it's the one who fights to hold back his tears.
Salvador Mallo: I admit that the text is a bit melodramatic now.

Alberto Crespo: Don't worry, I master melodrama. My years in Mexico will be of some use.
Alberto Crespo: Will you come to see me?

Salvador Mallo: I don't know. I don't think so.

Alberto Crespo: This time I'm not doing Shakespeare, or Chekhov, or Lorca. I'm doing you.

Salvador Mallo: If you do it badly, I'll feel terrible. And if you do it well, I'll feel much worse.
Alberto Crespo: [performing on stage, Salavdor's "Addiction"] I thought the strength of my love would defeat his addiction. But it wasn't so. Love isn't enough. Maybe love can move mountains, but it isn't enough to save the person you love.
Dr. A. Galindo: Do you have a new project?

Salvador Mallo: Yes. To improve my quality of life.
Jacinta: Don't get that storyteller look. I don't want you putting any of this in your films.
Mercedes: You're invited to give a talk in Iceland. It's well paid.

Salvador Mallo: I don't understand why they like me so much in Iceland.

Mercedes: Neither do I.
Salvador Mallo: She wanted to die in the village. And I'd promised to take her there. The poor thing died in the ICU of a hospital, alone.

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Pain and Glory short comments

Meaghan 2022-04-24 07:01:16

Not the best Almodóvar, but the most personal and tender. Regardless of whether you are a creator or not, even if you feel an unsympathetic self-pity in the first half, you will be deeply moved when you see the ending paragraph of the film. Almodóvar is talking about creation, but also how a person should face and respond to the past that has left a scar or an indelible mark on us. Of course, creation is a good way to face it. Those who can't be found and who can't meet again will meet again in the dream intertwined with words and movies.
Geraldine 2022-03-26 09:01:09

Whether it is a writer or a director, every creator who can be seen and known by others has been spreading around him all his life. It's just that the first half of my life was mostly true and false, false and real, like a dream. The same is true for ordinary people. The older they are, the more sincere they are after changing the cup, and the brighter their eyes between crying and laughing. Because we know that if we don't tell the truth, we have no chance.