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- ‘STRANGE WAY OF LIFE’ REVIEW: PEDRO ALMODóVAR’S FASHN SHORT RC ITS GAY COWBOYS TO A COUPLE OF CLOTH HORS
- SO ABOUT THAT GAY COWBOY MOVIE STARRG PEDRO PASL AND ETHAN HAWKE…
‘STRANGE WAY OF LIFE’ REVIEW: PEDRO ALMODóVAR’S FASHN SHORT RC ITS GAY COWBOYS TO A COUPLE OF CLOTH HORS
Every time two wboys pot their guns at one another on screen, there’s somethg homoerotic at play.
SO ABOUT THAT GAY COWBOY MOVIE STARRG PEDRO PASL AND ETHAN HAWKE…
” Commissned by Sat Lrent Productns (which is also premierg a Jean-Luc Godard short at Cann), this half-baked half-hour serv as a sexy showse for creative director Anthony Vacrello’s latt signs, while barely liverg on the promise that an Almodóvar-ma “gay wboy” movie njur the imagatn. The scene he’s thkg of is probably the one where Heath Ledger’s character tells Jake Gyllenhaal how his father ma a pot of showg him an old rancher’s rpse, gay-bashed wh a tire iron and then “dg … around by his dick. ) wh guns drawn, the homoeroticism cracklg more than the tensn as Almodóvar teas which of the balleros might perate the other.
Whether Pedro Almodóvar is exprsg regret over turng down Brokeback Mounta all those years ago, ntug to dip his to English-language projects after The Human Voice or reclaimg the place of gay wboys Ameri’s Old Wt, I am here for and most fely won’t be alone. Asi om one of the melancholy plot strands the superlative Pa and Glory, ’s been years sce Almodóvar ma a straight-up gay male love story, a fiant statement of passn that will not be ntaed. For example, Sam Elltt publicly cricized Jane Campn's Osr-wng The Power of the Dog for s homoerotic them.
The 30-mute film, om legendary gay director Pedro Almodóvar, was screened yterday (17 May) at the Cann Film Ftival.