Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas at the top with the film ‘Pain and Gloria’

Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas had worked together in seven films over almost four decades, from Passions, from 1982, to Passenger lovers (2013).

But none of his collaborations had been as acclaimed as pain and glory (2019), an intimate portrait inspired by the life of the filmmaker who deserved flags the award for best actor at the Cannes Festival in May and a new nomination for the globe ofGold in recent days.

Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas at the top with the film ‘Pain and Gloria’

The tape, also postulated to a balloon, was among the 10 candidates for the Oscar for the best international feature film (category previously known as the best film in a foreign language), and to win it would do it exactly 20 years after another Almodóvar film: all about my mother.

In the filmmaker's film, Banderas gives life to Salvador Mello, a seasoned gay director who flirts with drugs and must confront his past while reflecting on his life during a long creative blockade awarded to multiple ailments.

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Almodóvar, in an interview in October, said that for this project his friend and actor arrived with a disposition that he had never seen, to say of him "because he sensed that he was such a close character".

Almodóvar, 70, recalled that everything they had done before somehow had “an intensity as epic, even in the film!(1989) ”, and that on this occasion it was all“ passivity, internal emotion, demanded very small and at the same time very deep gestures ”.

The duo also dumbbells in Matador (1986), The Law of Desire (1987) and the skin that Habito (2011).

Among other recent recognitions in the United States, Banderas was selected as the best actor of the year by the circle of New York film critics and pain and glory among the 10 best films of 2019 according to the AP film reporters.

The nomination of flags to the Golden Globe represents the fifth of his career: it was postulated in 1997 and 1999 by the Evita films and the fox's mask, and in 2004 and 2019 for the tape made for television and Starring Pancho Villa As Himself and theGenius Series: Picasso.

And although the Spanish star was not recently nominated for the SAG Prize of the screen actors union, it still has the possibility of receiving its first candidacy for the Academy awards.

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As for Almodóvar, the filmmaker has been a spoiled of the Oscar, with an honor to the best original script for talking to her in 2013, when he also competed for the prize for the best director, in addition to the trophy for everything about my mother in 2000and a nomination for women on the edge of a nervous attack of 1988, also with flags.

However, actor and film face this year a hard competition.

For the Golden Globe to the best foreign film, pain and glory will be measured on January 5 with The Farewell (the farewell), the miseriables (the miserable ones), parasite (parasites) and portrait of the Jeune Fille in Feu (portrait ofA woman on fire), all widely praised productions.

For the Balloon for Best Drama Actor, Banderas, 59, competes with Christian Bale (against the impossible), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) and Jonathan Pryce (the two potatoes).

“I think that seeing for example the type of pools made by the media, it anticipates a lot.I am very happy to see that Antonio is always among the top five, and hopefully he continues to be like that, ”said Almodóvar.

As for his possible return to the maximum Hollywood gala, he said that "it is a very long way and is not in my hand", but "I would be very excited".

The Academy Awards nominations are announced on January 13.The awards will be delivered on February 9 at a gala that will be broadcast live from the Dolby de Los Angeles Theater.(YO)