STRANGE WAY OF LIVE
Type: western ✦✦
Direction: Pedro Almodovar. With Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, Manu Rios, José Condessa
He has been passionate about the medium-length format for some time (he had shot The human voice with Tilda Swinton in 2020), Almodóvar, here produced by the Maison Saint Laurent, stages a forbidden love passion (the West has its rules and are not very inclusive) between two cowboys who find each other again, now middle-aged men, after having loved each other in their youth.
Hawke is the sheriff of a small town, Pascal wants to protect his son wanted for murder.
Two decades later Brokeback Mountainthe Spanish director measures himself against the myth, wondering if a couple of cowboys, in that world where roles seem fixed, would ever have a chance.
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal (photo by Iglesias Más / El Deseo).
Who knows, if he had made a feature film maybe we would know.
LEGEND
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