Pedro Almodóvar will be previewed Strange way to livea western about homosexuality starring Peter Pascal Y Ethan Hawkein the next cannes film festivalpremiere scheduled for the month of May, as announced by the director this Friday in the podcast At your servicefrom Dua Lipa.
During his conversation with the British artist, the Spanish director defined his new short film as a “queer western” in which two armed men become lovers.
“For episode 11 of Dua Lipa: At your service I am very proud (and slightly dazzled) to welcome internationally acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar as my guest. Known for his daring and transgressive creationsAlmodóvar’s career as a director began in the late 1970s, when Spain had just emerged from decades of dictatorship and repression,” Dua wrote in the director’s introduction post.
“It’s a weird western which tells the story of two men who love each other and in which their protagonists (Pascal and Hawke) behave in opposite ways in the same situation”, revealed Almodóvar about this film in English by Duration 30 minutes partially shot in Tabernas desert, Almería, Spain.
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According to Almodóvar, this production will use the Far West to introduce “dialogue that hasn’t occurred before in a western” and in which the concept of masculinity will be addressed “in a profound sense”.
“It has many elements of the western, like the gunmen, the ranch or the sheriff, but I think there have never been conversations like this on the big screen and in this context,” explained the Oscar winner for best foreign film in 1999 for All about my mother.
It was at the Venice Film Festival two years ago that Almodóvar anticipated the production of a “very particular western” and announced the title, Strange way to live (Strange way of life”, in Spanish), title taken from a fado by the brilliant author Amalia Rodríguezbetter known as the “queen of fado”.
What a strange way to live / To have this heart of mine / You live in a lost way / Who would give you a condom?…
“I think the lyrics of that fado suggest that there is no stranger life than one lived with one’s back turned to one’s desires,” the director said at the time.
In mid-June of this year, the start of filming was made official. It is the synopsis of this story that tells of a certain Silva, a rancher who crosses the desert on horseback to visit Sheriff Jake, with whom he had worked as a hit man, 25 years earlier. Now things have changed.
in the distribution of Strange way to live Also appearing are Spaniards Pedro Casablanc and Sara Sálamo, along with promising youngsters Jason Fernández, Portuguese José Condessa, model George Steane and Manu Ríos. The costumes are supplied by Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent, who is also an associate producer on this project.
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