Apple TVPain and Glory (2019)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.3
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TV
Google PlayBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Positive
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVGoogle PlayDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film is primarily a deeply personal and introspective exploration of an aging artist's life, memory, and creative process, with its central themes being apolitical and focused on individual human experience rather than societal or ideological issues.
The film features a cast authentic to its Spanish setting, without explicit DEI-driven recasting of traditional roles. Its narrative explores the personal life and relationships of a gay protagonist, integrating this identity naturally without explicitly critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
Pain and Glory offers a deeply personal and empathetic portrayal of a gay film director, Salvador Mallo. His queer identity is central to his character, relationships, and artistic journey, depicted with dignity and complexity, affirming the worth of LGBTQ+ lives and love.
The film portrays Catholicism as a significant and formative part of the protagonist's childhood and his mother's life. Nuns are depicted with respect, recognizing young Salvador's artistic talent, and his mother's devout faith is shown with dignity, contributing to a nuanced and sympathetic portrayal.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Pain and Glory is an original, semi-autobiographical film. It does not adapt characters from prior source material, historical records, or previous installments where a canonical gender was established and subsequently altered.
Pain and Glory is an original film with characters created for its screenplay. There is no prior source material, historical figures, or previous installments from which characters' races could have been established and subsequently altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
8.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.5
7.4
Critic Ratings
9.6
8.7
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