Pedro Almodóvar Talks Western ‘Strange Way Of Life’: “I Think It’s The First Time In The History Of Westerns Where You See Two Men Making The Bed’
deadline.comSpanish director Pedro Almodóvar rode into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with his short film Strange Way Of Life, pushing boundaries for LGBT representation in the Western genre.
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal star as a sheriff and a rancher with a romantic history, who reconnect after a 25-year gap. While it’s clear that their passion is still alive, circumstances appear to conspire against a reunion.
Check out the trailer here. Almodóvar and Hawkes took to the stage for a special conversation after the Out of Competition world premiere in Cannes on Wednesday.
The director said the premise for the film had come from a question asked in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain – ‘What would two men do, working on a ranch?” – but added that his short bore no other similarities with the 2005 feature. “I wanted to make a classic western in which we talk about the desire between two cowboys.
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