Pedro Almodóvar's deeply personal 'Pain and Glory' could bring his first Palme d'Or at Cannes
CANNES, France - "This is the game," Pedro Almodovar says, his eyes positively twinkling as I apologize about asking an obvious question. "You will ask it and I will answer as if it's the first time."
The Spanish master director is sitting in a sheltered corner on a quiet hotel rooftop, enjoying the calm before the storm that is the Festival de Cannes.
"It's exhausting and exciting," he says, in advance of his latest film's official festival premiere, "and by the end, you are completely destroyed."
But it is early now, and Almodovar, both serious and playful, has the time and
