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Strange Way of Life
Original title: Extraña forma de vida
After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is no... Read allAfter twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his buddy Sheriff Jake. They honor the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to attend his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the conference, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to depart down the memory path of their friendship.
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Pedro Almodóvar Just Might Change His Gay Western Into a Full-Length Film
“Perhaps I should do it,” the director said after Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke lit up Cannes with their sexy cowboy short. Photo: Mubi
Nearly two decades ago, Pedro Almodóvar was offered the chance to direct Brokeback Mountain but declined, saying he was “doubtful he’d possess the freedom to construct the decisions he wanted.” At Cannes this afternoon, audiences finally got to see his answer to the gay cowboy feature at the premiere of Strange Way of Life, a 31-minute short starring Ethan Hawke as a sheriff named Jake and Pedro Pascal as a cowboy named Silva who, 25 years after a hot love affair, reunite in the desert under mysterious circumstances.
Almodóvar’s second English-language short after his Tilda Swinton–starring The Human Voice, Strange Way of Life is fun and soapy, classically Almodóvarian in its sensuality, bright color palette, and cheeky sense of humor. It’s instantly explain that this isn’t going to be your grandfather’s hetero-spaghetti Western: We first meet Silva as he strides into town on a horse in a bright green jacket, an appropriately anachronistic choice from costumer and producer
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Strange Way of Life.
Every genre film is engaged – as self-aware genre pastiches like the Scary Movie (2000) and Scream (1996) franchises cannily acknowledge – in a conversation with its predecessors. The western, the longest-lived of all major genres, has been commenting on and reworking its hold traditions since the silent era. Director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar’s new self-styled “queer western”, Strange Way of Life, is no exception.
Across its brief 30-minute runtime, Almodóvar reworks classical genre motifs – a stranger riding into town, ageing fellow outlaws now on opposite sides of the law, a desert pursuit and a Mexican standoff. But he does this in the novel context (for the western) of a love story between former gunslingers. Jake (Ethan Hawke) is now installed as sheriff of a small desert town, and Silva (Pedro Pascal) is his sometime fellow outlaw, friend – and lover.
Even after the breakthrough of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (2005) – a venture Almodóvar turned down, to his subsequent regret – gay characters in westerns remain rare. Sixties underground or off-Hollywood films love Andy Warhol’s parody Lones
Pedro Almodóvar’s Gay Western Compact ‘Strange Way of Life’ Scores First Deal With MUBI (EXCLUSIVE)
Pedro Almodóvar’s hotly anticipated short “Strange Way of Life” has secured its first deal ahead of its Cannes Film Festival earth premiere next month.
In the project’s first announced multi-territory deal MUBI — the indie streamer, distributor and producer — has acquired all rights for Italy and Latin America. Pathe will be releasing the motion picture in the U.K. under a longstanding agreement.
Shot in southern Spain’s Tabernas desert, “Strange Way of Life” stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as two gunmen who reunite after 25 years. The half-hour film has been described by Almodóvar as a “queer Western, in the sense that there are two men and they love each other,” the director said last December on Dua Lipa’s “At Your Service” podcast.
The limited marks Almodóvar’s second foray into English-language filmmaking following Tilda Swinton starrer “The Human Voice” in 2020. “Strange Way of Life” will screen at Ca
Almodóvar described the half-hour clip as a “queer Western, in the sense that there are two men and they adore each other.” He added that Pascal and Hawke’s characters “behave in that situation in an opposite way.”
“It’s about masculinity in a deep sense, because the Western is a male genre,” Almodóvar said. “What I can say you about the film is that it has a lot of the elements of the Western — it has the gunslinger, it has the ranch, it has the sheriff — but what it has that most Westerns don’t acquire is the caring of dialogue that I don’t reflect a Western film...