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'Bitter Christmas' Review: Pedro Almodóvar On Pain Of Filmmaking

Sbaraglia plays a filmmaker partly based on Almodóvar in a drama about using friends’ lives for art, with the director’s 24th feature in competition.

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A review of Bitter Christmas, which finds Pedro Almodóvar digs into his own profession again in a movie that explores creative crisis and renewal.

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In "Natal amargo", film by Pedro Almodóvar in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the Argentinean Leonardo Sbaraglia plays a filmmaker with problems of inspiration, in an unlovable portrait of the Spanish veteran director. Jafar Panahi: Iranian court will judge this week the case against the filmmaker 'Killing thousands': In Cannes, Javier Bardem criticizes Trump's 'toxic male behavior', Putin and Netanyahu Sbaraglia says he is delighted to…

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The Argentine actor interprets an alter ego of the director in his autobiographical film presented at Cannes: "When he offered me the role, he told me: "I don't want a flattering portrait." The really interesting thing about him is that, after 24 films, he is still an artist who explores, searches, investigates, engages and runs risks."

Cannes, France. Is the seventh beat? With "Amarga Navidad", Spanish Pedro Almodóvar aspires again to the Palm de Oro in Cannes, this time with a story about a filmmaker caught in a creative crisis. Pedro Almodóvar and his new proposal in Cannes The new film by the filmmaker Manchego, already premiered in Spain, tells the story of Raúl Durán, a famous director who ran out of ideas. His worries end when he begins to write a piece inspired by the v…

COMPETITION – Translating into music all that is in the director's head, this is the challenge that the composer has been facing for thirty years. Up to the point of being completely bodyless with him. The new film by Almodóvar was released in France on 20 May.

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Buenos Aires Times broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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