Pain and Glory vs The French Italian
The French Italian has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Pain and Glory). The French Italian is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 54m. Pain and Glory is the older of the two (2019 against 2024). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Pain and Glory
The French Italian| Pain and Glory | The French Italian | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 54m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Spain | United States of America |
| Director | Pedro Almodóvar | Rachel Wolther |
| Main cast | Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Antonio Banderas, Pedro Casablanc, Nora Navas | Jon Rudnitsky, Sunita Mani, Aristotle Athari, Catherine Cohen, Soojeong Son |
Synopsis
Pain and Glory
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.
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play…
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