Like all the best directors, Almodovar works out problems in life through his films. Pain and Glory remains his most personal -- and hence best -- film to date. Almodovar strips his convoluted storytelling (which conceals more than reveals) to the bare minimum, displaying his lifelong concerns and obsessions with unprecedented nakedness. Like Citizen Kane, the film is at heart about discovering memory, and the key to protagonist, a version of Almodovar, is found in childhood.
四星半;看到费里尼和安哲的影子追寻父亲验证身份还原偶像歌唱的母亲治愈了黑暗中的恐惧与童年噩梦尤利西斯之旅最终直视自身;从“神不存在”到领袖的消失How many roads must a man walk down /Before they call him a man;在佐杜洛夫斯基影片中一切肆意夸张荒诞都是被允许的