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The short in English, titled Strange Way of Life<\/i>will premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival, said Almod\u00f3var during an episode of the singer Dua Lipa’s podcast At Your Service<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Contacted by AFP, the Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 16 to 27, 2023, did not want to confirm the information on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This is Almod\u00f3var’s first western, a work that “deals with masculinity in a deep sense,” as he revealed during that conversation with the singer, broadcast on December 2.<\/p>\n
“It’s a ‘queer’ western, in the sense that there are two men who love each other,” said the filmmaker.<\/p>\n
Almod\u00f3var, who said he was “forbidden” to talk about the film’s plot, advanced that the short will have the classic elements of this “male genre”, but that it will explore “a type of dialogue that I don’t think any western has ever captured between two men \u201d.<\/p>\n
A precedent for the western genre is Brokeback Mountain<\/i>, shot in 2005 by Ang Lee. It narrates the secret relationship between two cowboys, and won the Golden Lion of Venice in 2005 and three Oscars the following year.<\/p>\n
Pedro Almod\u00f3var, 73, has seen two of his films rewarded at Cannes, Everything about my mother<\/i> (Best Director, 1999) and Return<\/i> (Best Actress Award, 2006), but she still has to win the long-awaited Palme d’Or.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n