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Two short films by director Pedro Almodóvar.
4:30 PM
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6:00 PM
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5:00 PM
2:15 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
9:00 PM
4:00 PM
6:30 PM
This double bill features two short films from Pedro Almodóvar
Strange Way of Life: A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship. [Sony Picture Classics]
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre(s): Short, Drama, Western
Rating: R
Running Time: 31 min.
The Human Voice: A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him. [Sony Picture Classics]
Starring: Tilda Swinton
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre(s): Short, Drama
Rating: R
Running Time: 30 min.
"This is who Almodóvar is as a filmmaker. His work is filled with sumptuous treats all in service of stories that challenge. In his hands, the trickiest subjects go down smooth."
— Drew Gregory, Autostraddle
"The richly acted, sumptuously photographed Strange Way of Life lives up to its title as a revisionist Western that embraces its classical genre roots while also carving out a very modern way of looking at the past."
— Stephen Garrett, Observer
"It’s a provocative movie that brings out the best in both of its leads, and feels like the filmmaker is having fun playing around with these genre tropes, even if he’s not being the least bit ironic in his use of them."
— David Fear, Rolling Stone
"The filmmaking, as you’d expect, is impeccable, Almodóvar’s regular composer Alberto Iglesias providing menace and melodrama in equal measure, only giving into Morricone-esque operatic stylings over the end credits."
— Ian Freer, Time Out
