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NBC News reports:
Pedro Almodóvar, the filmmaker who has defined Spanish cinema for nearly the last four decades, tackles the quintessential American genre in his new Western short, “Strange Way of Life.” The 31-minute film stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as estranged lovers living on the American frontier who revisit the romance of their youth before finding themselves in an Old West-style standoff.
With an offscreen love scene and an exaggerated style, the experimental short evokes the homoeroticism that’s long bubbled under the surface of the genre, and gives deeper meaning to the figure of the solitary cowboy.
“I took advantage of living now and not being afraid of talking about men’s desire in a genre full of men,” Almodóvar told NBC News of the short film, which is now showing alongside his 2020 short “The Human Voice” in U.S. theaters and will stream on MUBI starting Oct. 20.
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The new Western short, “Strange Way of Life,” stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as estranged lovers living on the American frontier, who revisit the romance of their youth before finding themselves in an Old West-style standoff. https://t.co/vTqqfnWGdX
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 8, 2023