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2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory

Published on May 18, 2019

Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory becomes the auteur’s eighth trip to the Competition and already, comes positive buzz from way back in March having premiered locally before unpacking in front of international audiences. Flirting with the autobiographical, Pedro summoned players Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, and Cecilia Roth to once again join in the festivities. Despite winning Best Director for All About My Mother and Best Screenplay for Volver, the filmmaker has not yet won one of the top three prizes. This is a tale with certain biographical elements shifting between the present and the past. Sony Pictures Classics just picked up the rights.

With a trio having had caught local screenings ahead of international press, most of our panel have caught one of the numerous screenings both late yesterday and this morning. It’s the first official buss title of the fest, but not a unanimous chorus as his previous films to compete.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory