Name: Pain and Glory // Mumblecore Madness
Start: 2025-08-22T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-22T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Stray Cat Film Center

$Pain and Glory \/\/ Mumblecore Madness$

Banderas delivers a stunning performance in Almodóvar’s aching, intimate portrait of memory, creation, and the cost of a life in art.
About this Event

Pedro Almodóvar, 2019, 113 mins

Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory is a vivid, deeply personal story of a filmmaker in decline, reckoning with memory, addiction, and lost love. Antonio Banderas gives a career-best performance in this haunting, emotionally rich reflection on aging, healing, and the power of creation.

About Mumblecore Madness

Mumblecore Madness is a screening series that celebrates the authenticity of human communication often overlooked in mainstream cinema.

While it includes traditional "mumblecore" films, it extends beyond genre, showcasing character-driven narratives, improvisation, and guerrilla-style filmmaking. These films explore the subtleties of personal relationships, capturing the nuances of everyday life through philosophical inquiry and non-verbal communication.

With selections from various countries and eras, "Mumblecore Madness" invites audiences to embrace the beauty of imperfection and celebrate the richness of human connection.