Pedro Almadovar is considered a master of cinema. After I learnet that he made a new film that was merely autobiographical, I set out to explore some of his filmograhy. I had already watched Julieta and as far as I can remember I liekd the film's vibrant look and colours and its intersting characters. I managed to watch
"Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios", a funny and really entertaining comedy and "Todo sobre mi madre", a really sentimental journey of grief, pain andcompassion. His newest film, which I watched in the cinemas, skipping Thessalonki International Film Festival for a little while, is a sentimental and heartwarming ride about memories and human emotions like ...
"Dolor y gloria" (Pain and Glory)
The film is about the life and times of a film director, his realtionship with an actor he has worked before, his health condition, the love and bitternesss he has experienced and its a look at his joyful and dream-like childhood in comparison to his gloomy, messed up present life as a strugglying individual. Lonelinsess and melanxcholia are immersively explored in the movie and its flow feels so sweet and heartwarming. It is a beautiful story told in a true, bursitng-with-emotion and humorous manner by a director who seeks for a way to tell his humane story- and the best way to express life is of course his art.
The presentation is glamorous, the blues and reds and yellows are beautiful and every frame is a direct explosion of life and passion. The protagonist feels like a real person and that is due to Andonio Bandera's acting (he is present in every second) and the nicely written script. The film is basically a series of events the director experiences during a certain period of his career and meanwhile we get to view his far more beautiful and simpler yet more complete life as a sharp and lively child gorwing with his caring mum and dad in a cave-like house.
The music and amtosphere is great and the tone is a balnce of sweet and bitter memories that lead to a greater realisation about life and human experiences,- it is tender and by embrasing both depression, aging and love and growth it feels as a work of life by a director who is so mature that he is able to take bits of his life and create a puzzle of memoirs, a ritch canvas of human relationships but also of the inevitability of loneliness and the portrayl of a common between the past, present and future- that is the human soul.
There is only one thing about the movie and it's actually not an actual problem but a fact. I am 15 years and even if my everyday life is full of tender and sad moments- everyone expreriences pain and glory in their own ways- I have not yet reached that point in my life were I want to look back at a certain era so that I feel better. Nostalgia and the desire for the innocence and the tangible feeling of childhood and memories of pure joy has not yet a situation I experience or I am not yet ready or old enough to completely grasp and empathize with, because, to put it simply, I am still a kid. So, at certain points I was unable to fully feel what the character was feeling, though I managed to sympathize and live in his world. I get that because of my age, this should happen in most of films were the protagonists are adults, but the experiences and instances in the film were really specific and exact, so there was a certain and obvious gap between me and the protagonist and the moments that he experienced. So, I vastly enjoyed the film, but was not fully commited to it because of my age and experiences.
But this is of course one of the many beauties of film and art in general. I have formed a certain opinion about a piece of art now but in 2 or 10 or 30 years my opinion will change and grow in analogy to my experiences and ways of perceiving life. I actually am of the belief and we don't really change, but hte way we view certain matters does or in a way can. So, art stays the same, but we perceived in a whole different.
And maybe I will grow and start to view things form other angles and I may suffer more than I already do and I may want to take a step back for a while and remember the times where I did not think that much and just let things flow...
Pain and Glory is painful and glorious, as you'd expect from a direcotr who lives, suffers, enjoys and jogs his memory to find the small and grand moments of his human existense.
"Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios", a funny and really entertaining comedy and "Todo sobre mi madre", a really sentimental journey of grief, pain andcompassion. His newest film, which I watched in the cinemas, skipping Thessalonki International Film Festival for a little while, is a sentimental and heartwarming ride about memories and human emotions like ...
"Dolor y gloria" (Pain and Glory)
The film is about the life and times of a film director, his realtionship with an actor he has worked before, his health condition, the love and bitternesss he has experienced and its a look at his joyful and dream-like childhood in comparison to his gloomy, messed up present life as a strugglying individual. Lonelinsess and melanxcholia are immersively explored in the movie and its flow feels so sweet and heartwarming. It is a beautiful story told in a true, bursitng-with-emotion and humorous manner by a director who seeks for a way to tell his humane story- and the best way to express life is of course his art.
The presentation is glamorous, the blues and reds and yellows are beautiful and every frame is a direct explosion of life and passion. The protagonist feels like a real person and that is due to Andonio Bandera's acting (he is present in every second) and the nicely written script. The film is basically a series of events the director experiences during a certain period of his career and meanwhile we get to view his far more beautiful and simpler yet more complete life as a sharp and lively child gorwing with his caring mum and dad in a cave-like house.
The music and amtosphere is great and the tone is a balnce of sweet and bitter memories that lead to a greater realisation about life and human experiences,- it is tender and by embrasing both depression, aging and love and growth it feels as a work of life by a director who is so mature that he is able to take bits of his life and create a puzzle of memoirs, a ritch canvas of human relationships but also of the inevitability of loneliness and the portrayl of a common between the past, present and future- that is the human soul.
There is only one thing about the movie and it's actually not an actual problem but a fact. I am 15 years and even if my everyday life is full of tender and sad moments- everyone expreriences pain and glory in their own ways- I have not yet reached that point in my life were I want to look back at a certain era so that I feel better. Nostalgia and the desire for the innocence and the tangible feeling of childhood and memories of pure joy has not yet a situation I experience or I am not yet ready or old enough to completely grasp and empathize with, because, to put it simply, I am still a kid. So, at certain points I was unable to fully feel what the character was feeling, though I managed to sympathize and live in his world. I get that because of my age, this should happen in most of films were the protagonists are adults, but the experiences and instances in the film were really specific and exact, so there was a certain and obvious gap between me and the protagonist and the moments that he experienced. So, I vastly enjoyed the film, but was not fully commited to it because of my age and experiences.
But this is of course one of the many beauties of film and art in general. I have formed a certain opinion about a piece of art now but in 2 or 10 or 30 years my opinion will change and grow in analogy to my experiences and ways of perceiving life. I actually am of the belief and we don't really change, but hte way we view certain matters does or in a way can. So, art stays the same, but we perceived in a whole different.
And maybe I will grow and start to view things form other angles and I may suffer more than I already do and I may want to take a step back for a while and remember the times where I did not think that much and just let things flow...
Pain and Glory is painful and glorious, as you'd expect from a direcotr who lives, suffers, enjoys and jogs his memory to find the small and grand moments of his human existense.