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 ...

An official synopsis for the film, translated from Spanish, reads: “Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend. She throws herself into work as a form of ...

Bitter Christmas is the latest movie from master craftsman, Pedro Almodóvar, and the new picture has scored some very positive reviews thus far. While it is expected to potentially play at Cannes, ...

Pedro Almodóvar‘s latest movie at the Cannes Film Festival, Bitter Christmas, scored a nine-minute ovation after its world premiere screening Tuesday night. The pic (Spanish title: Amarga Navidad) — ...

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The Spanish auteur's next Cannes title, 'Bitter Christmas,' is just the sixth feature film for Smit. It also happens to be the first time she's had a character written just for her: "I'm in a dream!" ...

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar declared that “The U.S. is not a democracy right now” in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, where his new film, ...

New films by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and Spain’s Pedro Almodovar will premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival next month. Organizers for the ...

Early in Pedro Almodóvar's new film "Bitter Christmas," a female filmmaker is briefly hospitalized, and the attending physician recognizes her as the director of an offbeat film from some years before ...

Pedro Almodovar, Steven Soderbergh, Ron Howard, Pawel Pawlikowski, Lukas Dhont and Hirokazu Kore-eda are among the directors who will be bringing new films to the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes ...