10h
In Pain and Glory, Asier Etxeandia delivers a highly memorable, improvised dancing scene inside a stylized Madrid apartment.
The Music and Context
The Song: He dances to Grace Jones’s iconic, sultry cover of "La Vie en Rose".
The Mood: The scene captures a brief, fleeting moment of freedom, melancholy, and pure joy.
The Performance: Etxeandia's movements feel completely natural and fluid rather than heavily choreographed.
Asier Etxeandia starred as Alberto Crespo in Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed 2019 semi-autobiographical film, Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria). He plays a charismatic, heroin-using theatre actor who reconnects with the film's protagonist, an aging auteur played by Antonio Banderas.
