This is your chance to own a signed and personalized script book of Pedro Almodóvar film Pain and Glory.
The ACLU SoCal’s June auction will celebrate items from artists, athletes, and content creators from the LGBTQ community as we celebrate Pride!
The book is in Spanish, and includes the script of the film, as well as photography, storyboard (exclusive material) and some notes by the filmmaker.
Pain and Glory synopsis:
The film tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films.
Pedro Almodóvar was born in Calzada de Calatrava in the 50s. At seventeen, he moved to Madrid with a very specific project in mind: to study cinema and direct films. It was impossible to enrol in the Official Film School because Franco had just closed it. Despite the dictatorship that was suffocating the country, for an adolescent from the provinces Madrid represented culture, independence and freedom.
He worked at many sporadic jobs, but he couldn’t buy his first Super8 camera until he got a so-called serious job at the National Telephone Company of Spain. He worked there for twelve years. This job gave him an in-depth knowledge of the Spanish middle class at the start of the consumer era, with its dramas and its misfortunes, a real gold mine for a future storyteller. In his spare time, he wrote, loved, played theatre, collaborated with various underground magazines and wrote stories (some of which were even published!), was a member of the parody punk-rock group Almodóvar & McNamara and made films in Super-8. He had the good fortune that his personal explosion coincided with the birth of democracy in Spain. In Madrid, that particular period was known as La Movida.
After a year and a half of eventful shooting, he released Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980. It was a no-budget film made as a cooperative effort with the crew and the cast. All of them were beginners, except for Carmen Maura.
In 1986, Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar founded the production company El Deseo. Their first project was Law of Desire. Since then, they have produced all of Pedro’s films, as well as some others by Alex de la Iglesia, Isabel Coixet, Lucrecia Martel, Damián Szifrón or Guillermo del Toro.
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