Europe must never be subjected to Trump’ says Spanish film-maker at a Cannes press conference for his new film, Bitter Christmas ...
Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director ...
As self-referencing as 2019's 'Pain and Glory' but without that film's deeper personal resonance, this Cannes competition entry is quintessential but not vintage Almodóvar: enjoyable and immaculately ...
Despite its name, this is less a holiday movie and more of a Pirandello-inflected meditation on storytelling, creativity and the sometimes morally dubious origins of inspiration. Courtesy Cannes Film ...
The melodrama, which premiered in competition at the French festival, marks the 76-year-old director's return to his native language after making his English-language debut with the Venice-winning ...
Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar urged artists to speak out about the crises facing society on Wednesday, ...
A review of Bitter Christmas, which finds Pedro Almodóvar digs into his own profession again in a movie that explores creative crisis and renewal.
Pedro Almodóvar is known for mining his own personal experience, but Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) explores this on a whole new level. His viewpoint is reflected in the film in two interwoven ...
A Tuesday evening press screening in Cannes of Pedro Almodovar’s “Bitter Christmas” was temporarily evacuated after a medical ...
Gijón and Bárbara Lennie star in this semi-autobiographical meta-fiction about a film director whose screenplay violates a close friend’s privacy.