What is it about?
Silva crosses the desert on horseback to find Jake, whom he knew twenty-five years ago, when they were both assassins. Silva wants to connect with his childhood friend, now a sheriff, but this reunion isn’t his only motivation…
Where and how can I see Pedro Almodovar’s new movie?
A Strange Way of Life is a new short film from the world-renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, who is credited with Parle avec elle, Bad Education, La Piel que habito and Madres Paralelas.
But surprisingly, her new film will be released in theaters alongside a previous short film, La Voix Humaine, inspired by a play by Jean Cocteau and starring Tilda Swinton. This short film, which was his first film in English, was released direct to VOD and DVD in 2020.
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This double theatrical release has been christened “The Almodovar Experience” and it allows the audience to attend a session of approximately 1 hour (two short films of half an hour each), instead of only 30 minutes of a short film.
You can now find a list of theaters near you that offer “The Almodóvar Experience” on the “Strange Way of Life” screening tab or the “Almodóvar Experience” page, as the vast majority of 245 theaters are showing Strange Way of Life. plans to screen two shorts together as part of the “Almodovar Experience”.
But some cinemas bet on showing only the latest Strange of Way of Life short film, such as the cinemas of Cinepolis (in Belfort, Lome, Nancy, Mulhouse, Nîmes, Rouen and Thionville) and other cinemas such as the cinemas in Berck sur mer, Caméo Saint-Sébastien in Nancy and the Star in Strasbourg.
Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as the fearsome lovers of the Wild West
For A Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida, in the original version), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar called two Hollywood stars for his second English-language film.
It brings together Pedro Pascal, the popular actor who everyone is crying about and who we have seen in Game of Thrones, Narcos, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Mandalorian and The Last of Us and Ethan Hawke (Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise trilogy. , Welcome Gattaka, evil), for a special short-lived project.
Indeed, the winner of the director’s prize Tout sur ma mère in 1999 and the screenplay prize in 2006 for Volver, but also the president of the jury in 2017, returned to the short format of this fiction, which he sees as. “The Answer to the Mystery of Brokeback Mountain” And to the question “What would two men do out west working on a ranch?”Strange Way of Life tells the story of the reunion “and more of a bond” between two childhood friends, Silva and Jake, who were contract killers.
The screening in Cannes was followed by a long round of applause and a question-and-answer session moderated by journalist Guillemette Odicchino. The Spanish director explained his intention with this short film:
“This western is the opposite of an abstract, vintage western. But I didn’t want to make a spaghetti western either. I put these two characters in a very specific situation. They seem to fall in love when they really are. There’s a hidden agenda. I wanted to make a western my way. “.
With all the warmth, color and humor he’s known for, Pedro Almodovar breathes new life into the Western genre with a melodramatic vision of queer romance. And it works! Deeply rhythmic, impeccably performed, and as funny as it is moving, Strange Way of Life chronicles the lives of two lost souls in the wild west, doing everything to oppose them, but also fatally drawn to each other.
Inspired by newer Western efforts such as Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, which he cited, Pedro Almodovar took some interesting paths in his directing and directing actors, as he explained:I decided not to show their naked bodies, but to hear their voices naked. What they say has a lot more to do with their sexuality than the sex scenes I could film.”
An ode to desire, this short film doesn’t play the easy card with overly explicit sex scenes and favors suggestion (which leaves room for fantasy) and restraint (sucking but delicious), even if Pedro Pascal exudes sensuality with a slightly sinister air.
Instead of more graphic scenes, we witness suggestive and contemplative shots, but also honest dialogues about this tortured but very tender love affair. But one thing is for sure: we wish we had a longer version!
The film “Strange Life” is currently in theaters.
Source: Allocine
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