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Strange Way of Life review: Pedro Almodóvar’s 30-minute queer western is a tender miniature

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Strange Way of Life.

The Conversation

Who is Pedro Almodóvar: iconic director and counter-culture trailblazer

The playful maverick, whose short film Strange Way of Life is out now, is one of the greatest and most subversive filmmakers of our time

Evening Standard

Legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I wanted to see if I could do a different kind of sexy’

The Oscar-winning director behind ‘All About My Mother’ and ‘Volver’ talks to Adam White about casting Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as the heroes of his queer western, why he thinks Hollywood has ‘pigeonholed’ Pascal, and how he personally escaped from ‘hell’

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Director Pedro Almodóvar explains decision to turn down Brokeback Mountain: ‘I was insecure’

Groundbreaking gay Western starred Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger

The Independent UK

Auteurwear: Why is the fashion industry suddenly producing A-list cinema?

Pedro Almodóvar’s new film is produced by Saint Laurent, which is also funding projects by visionaries including David Cronenberg and Wong Kar-wai. We shouldn’t necessarily be worried, writes Sam Joyce

The Independent UK

Short story collection by Pedro Almodóvar to be published next year

An English translation of 12 stories, which the Spanish film director calls his ‘fragmentary autobiography’, will come out next September

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2023 week one roundup – from Depp to Godard, the chaotic circus rolls on

Enraging, bracing and sublime, the 76th edition of the French film festival kicks off with a controversial visit from Johnny Depp and gallops through films from Pedro Almodóvar, Catherine Corsini, Steve McQueen and more

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A Strange Way of Life: Almodóvar’s latest short has tons of style, no substance and very little sex

Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke turn in good performances but they’ve got very little to work with in this weirdly dated portrait of a relationship

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Pedro Almodóvar rides into the Western in a Cannes short about gay cowboys

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The Independent UK

All the drama around Pedro Almodóvar’s gay Western Cannes short starring Pedro Pascal

Strange Way of Life tells the story of two cowboys in the Wild West who are ex-lovers

Evening Standard

Strange Way of Life reactions say the film is "melodramatic" and "tantalizing"

The film premiered at Cannes this week

Total Film

The Delinquents review – beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires heist tale

If Pedro Almodóvar and Eric Rohmer teamed up to compose a meanderingly long crime caper it might look like this

The Guardian - UK

Ethan Hawke says Pedro Pascal is ‘attractive and extremely talented’

‘Strange Way of Life’ is a 30-minute gay Western short film that had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

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The Guardian - UK

Strange Way of Life review – Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke sizzle in Almodóvar’s queer cowboy yarn

The director gets back in the saddle at Cannes with this dusty lusty tale of long-lost lovers bound by a bloody fate

Evening Standard

Yee-haw! 6 of the best LGBTQ+ cowboy films, from Brokeback Mountain to Strange Way Of Life

Happen to be looking for an excellent queer cowboy film to watch during Pride month? Yee-haw!

Total Film

First Strange Way of Life trailer teases a tender love story between Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke

The first trailer for Pedro Almodóvar's Western has arrived

The Guardian - UK

‘By the time I was 30 I’d lived in more than 25 places – including a car showroom’

After three decades of pebbledash, mould and evictions, a serial renter wonders what really makes a home and how we can dig ourselves out of the housing crisis

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Saint Laurent to start film production company, working with Pedro Almodóvar and David Cronenberg

Envisioned by creative director Anthony Vaccarello, Saint Laurent Productions will work with directors including David Cronenberg, Paolo Sorrentino and Pedro Almodóvar – with the last’s short film premiering this May at Cannes Film Festival

Evening Standard

Sarah Paulson reveals she gave Pedro Pascal her acting pay so he could eat as struggling actor

Paulson also explained why she believes her friend has the ‘sign of a major movie star’

Pedestrian.tv

Pedro Pascal Ethan Hawke’s Gay Cowboy Movie Has A Trailer Now I’m Nothing But A Yee-Hole

Is that a gun is his pocket or...?

Woman & Home

Pedro Pascal’s go-to-Starbucks order is making our heads spin

A fan of The Last Of Us posted a TikTok video featuring actor Pedro Pascal's very intense Starbucks order and the Internet can't stop talking about it

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best films about motherhood

This Mother’s Day weekend, let’s celebrate self-sacrificing, feuding, exhausted, loving screen mums, from Stella Dallas to Lady Bird, Mommie Dearest to 20th Century Women

Los Angeles Times

‘Chicago’ shouldn’t have won best picture in 2003. Here’s what should have

LOS ANGELES — There’s a case to be made that Oscars should be awarded not a few months but a few years after the movies are released. Maybe even 20 years, so as to weed out the overpraised clunkers, elevate the overlooked gems and ensure that the winners truly stand…

Los Angeles Times

Carolina A. Miranda: RIP 'Los Espookys,' illicit lovechild of Pedro Almodóvar and 'Scooby-Doo'

Occasionally there comes along a cultural artifact so peculiar that adequate vocabulary does not yet exist to describe it. That was certainly the case with HBO's "Los Espookys," a program whose narratives so effectively eschewed Hollywood convention that even its authors had a tough time coming up with an elevator…

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