Bitter Christmas is familiar stuff from the playful Spanish auteur, which isn't always a bad thing, but it doesn't get going ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pedro Almodóvar is known for mining his own personal experience, but Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) explores this on a whole ...

Cinema that highlights the darker and grimmer aspects of human nature and the human condition, from Hollywood noir to ...

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, ...

Pedro Almodovar received a warm 6.5-minute standing ovation at the international premiere of “Bitter Christmas.” While the ovations weren’t close to the Venice applause for his “The Room Next Door,” ...

Part of a string of late-career Pedro Almodóvar films that aren’t as dazzling as his early work but feel deep and profound, “Bitter Christmas” is a Russian nesting doll of a movie. It’s a layered ...

Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Bárbara Lennie star in this semi-autobiographical meta-fiction about a film director whose screenplay violates a close friend’s privacy. By David Rooney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar makes his seventh appearance in Cannes' main competition this year with "Bitter Christmas." ...