Pedro Almodóvar has never shied away from making movies close to himself and the act of making movies themselves. With his latest, Bitter Christmas, he creates the parallel stories of a successful writer-director who is experiencing creative block, and a group of people 22 years earlier who may or not figure into his latest screenplay. […]
Movistar Plus is marking the start of Alfonso Gómez Palacio’s tenure as CEO with a restructuring of its operations, as the leading Spanish pay TV/SVOD platform launches a new content and sports framework. Gómez Palacio succeeded Daniel Domenjó, who left the post in April after just over a year as CEO of Movistar Plus. His […]
Pedro Almodóvar is known for mining his own personal experience, but Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) explores this on a whole new level. His viewpoint is reflected in the film in two interwoven protagonists — director Raul (Leonardo Sbaraglia), and Elsa (Bárbara Lennie), the cult filmmaker at the center of Raul’s screenplay. As Raul grapples with […]
Pedro Almodóvar recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times ahead of his latest movie, “Bitter Christmas,” competing at the Cannes Film Festival and called out the Oscars for being blatantly apolitical this year. “You know, I’m not really blaming anyone in particular, but it was quite notable watching the Oscar telecast where there were not many protests […]
“While they were putting on my wig, I had a doctor on the phone who told me, ‘It looks like you have a brain aneurysm,’” says Penélope Cruz, 51, the actress who has starred in some of the most memorable scenes in cinema of recent decades, both in Spain and abroad.
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