Movie Tuesdays - "Pain and Glory" by Pedro Almodóvar (2019). An autobiographical tale that glides between past and present, this film hits with all the emotional heft we have come to expect from Almodóvar.
Screening in the gardens of the Villa Sauber as part of the exhibition "Pasolini in Chiaroscuro". Having lost Maddalena, who has been jailed because of him, the cowardly and unscrupulous pimp Accattone must find some way to make a living. He goes back to the mother of his child, but she throws him out. Then he meets Stella, an innocent and naive young woman, and falls in love...
The sorceress Medea, daughter of the King of Colchis, encounters the prince Jason who has come to her land to steal the Golden Fleece, sacred to her people. Falling madly in love with the young Greek, she betrays her family by taking the Golden Fleece and running away with him. Years later, after she has borne him two children, the man for whom she gave everything up leaves her for a younger woman...