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• QUE(E)RI: IT WAS AN IMPRSIVELY GAY CANN, BUT ‘BEHD THE CANLABRA’ END UP HAVG LTLE TO DO WH THAT
• PEDRO ALMODóVAR RIS INTO THE WTERN A CANN SHORT ABOUT GAY COWBOYS
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PEDRO PASL AND ETHAN HAWKE’S GAY COWBOYS TAKE CANNIN PEDRO ALMODóVAR’S SHORT FILM STRANGE WAY OF LIFE, THE PAIR LEAVE WANTG MORE.BY RICHARD LAWSONMAY 17, 2023COURTY OF CANN FILM FTIVALSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE PROMISE OF A GAY WTERN STARRG PEDRO PASL AND ETHAN HAWKE AND DIRECTED BY PEDRO ALMODóVAR PROVED TO BE TNIP TO CANN DIENC WHEN THE SHORT FILM STRANGE WAY OF LIFE PREMIERED AT THE FTIVAL WEDNDAY. NOT EVEN A STEADY RA KEPT THE CROWDS AWAY—SPE HAVG TO WA LE, GETTG DRENCHED, FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. WHEN ALMODóVAR TOOK THE STAGE TO TRODUCE THE FILM—ONE OF HIS FEW FORAYS TO ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CEMA—HE WAS JOED BY HAWKE AND A QUARTET OF HUNKY ACTORS (AMONG THEM MANU RS, OM THE H SPANISH TEEN SOAP ELE). IT ALL SEEMED TO SET THE STAGE FOR SOMETHG VIVID AND SENSUAL THE STYLE OF SO MANY OTHER ALMODóVAR FILMS. AND WAS BORNE OUT, ALBE LIMED WAYS, THE ACTUAL FILM. HAWKE PLAYS A SMALL-TOWN SHERIFF, JAKE, WHO IS VTIGATG THE MURR OF HIS SISTER--LAW AT THE HANDS OF HER LOVER. PASL IS SILVA, AN OLD IEND OF JAKE’S WHO RIS TO TOWN FOR SHADOWY PURPOS. AT LEAST PART OF HIS TENTN IS ROMANTIC: JAKE AND SILVA HAD A TWO-MONTH FLG MEXI SOME 25 YEARS PREV, A BRIEF AND WONRFUL GIVG- TO FORBIDN SIRE THAT SEEMS TO HAVE HNTED THE TWO MEN EVER SCE. SILVAN WANTS TO PICK UP WHERE THEY LEFT OFF, WHILE JAKE HALFHEARTEDLY RISTS. IN THAT SENSE, STRANGE WAY OF LIFE IS A MELODRAMA, WH LOTS OF HEAVY TALK ABOUT THE SWEET, EROTIC GLEAM OF THE PAST AND ALL THE BTER PROMIS OF THE PRENT. HAWKE AND PASL FD THE RIGHT TONE TO HANDLE ALL THIS FLORID EMOTG, WH ALMODóVAR MOSTLY GETTG OUT THEIR WAY. THOUGH HE DO LET ALBERTO IGLIAS’S SWELLG SRE SH AT THE LOVELORN PAIR, A DASH OF OLD HOLLYWOOD FLARE AT ONCE MOURNFUL AND SWOONG. THERE IS EVENTUALLY A SHOOTOUT, OF SORTS, BUT ’S NOT PLAYED FOR FUN. AND ’S ULTIMATELY SERVICE OF A POIGNANT NCLN. STRANGE WAY OF LIFE CUTS THROUGH S GRIZZLE TO ARRIVE AT SOMETHG SOFT AND SENTIMENTAL, A VISN OF HOW JAKE AND SILVA ULD HAVE BEEN HAD THEY ALLOWED PASSN TO W OUT OVER NVENTN AND THE HARSH STRICTUR OF LIFE THE OLD WORLD. THERE IS A SMALL B OF SEXY STUFF TOO, PARTICULARLY A DREAMY AND WE-SOAKED FLASHBACK TO WHAT WAS PERHAPS THE BEGNG OF JAKE AND SILVA’S FIRST RNAL RELEASE. IT’S BRIEF, JT LIKE THE SEXUAL EPIPHANY FLASHBACK ALMODóVAR’S PA AND GLORY. ALSO HELPG RAISE THE VAPORS LEVEL ARE THOSE HANDSOME SPANISH FELLOWS, WHO ARE BARELY THE FILM BUT ADD TO THE FILM’S HEADY, HOT-AND-BOTHERED AIR NOHELS.IT’S A KICK TO SEE ALMODóVAR’S GAY GAZE APPLIED TO A WTERN, THOUGH AT ONLY 31 MUT, THE FILM LEAV WANTG QUE A LOT MORE. ONE HOP THAT THIS MIGHT BE A MERE MO REEL FOR A FULL FEATURE FILM; ALMODóVAR HAS SAID HE IS GAG NFINCE DIRECTG ENGLISH, SO PERHAPS HE MIGHT FEEL READY TO PURSUE A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STORY WH PASL AND HAWK. THERE’S MORE TO BE EXPLORED HERE, MORE NVENTNS OF THE WTERN TO BE TURNED ON THEIR HEADS—OR, RATHER, EXPAND TO CLU NEW NARRATIV. WH STRANGE WAY OF LIFE, ALMODóVAR, SUCH A FULL-THROATED AND SGULAR FILMMAKER, PROV JT THE RIGHT MAN TO LEAD THAT REVOLUTNARY CHARGE.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRICHARD LAWSON

For many gay ftival regulars, Queer Night is one of the more anticipated events on the social lendar bee of the lack of a gay scene on the surroundg streets Cann. Gay bar hotspot Zanzibar, an dtry fave, closed 2011 (’s been replaced by an ice cream shop), leavg a hole the landspe. Still, most Cann venu are gay iendly, even the champagne bars, as long as you spend the money for a bottle.

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” (The remag gay bars clu drag bar Le 7 and a sex club, ParadaX. The promise of a gay Wtern starrg Pedro Pasl and Ethan Hawke and directed by Pedro Almodóvar proved to be tnip to Cann dienc when the short film Strange Way of Life premiered at the ftival Wednday. Also helpg raise the vapors level are those handsome Spanish fellows, who are barely the film but add to the film’s heady, hot-and-bothered air ’s a kick to see Almodóvar’s gay gaze applied to a Wtern, though at only 31 mut, the film leav wantg que a lot more.

A murr mystery set the late ‘70s gay porn dtry, this film works as both a kschy guilty pleasure and a thoughtful medatn on sire and sexual reprsn.

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Though opened to to rave reviews at Cann, many of which praised s sensive pictn of young love, the film has already been banned Kenya (where homosexualy ntu to be illegal) due to s lbian storyle.

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A lh and btersweet romance, Sorry Angel had Cann dienc appldg s pictn of gay men durg a notably transnal time queer history. Cale Vidal-Naquet’s film is straightforward about the harsh reali facg a young gay male sex worker (played by Félix Mard, a performance that’s guaranteed to thst him to the limelight). When he isn’t phg the gay agenda, you n ually fd him talkg about Big Ltle Li or Lryn Hill to anyone willg to listen.

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One of the more trigug selectns at this year’s Cann Film Ftival — a 30-mute gay Wtern short film om beloved Spanish tr Pedro Almodóvar, prented by French fashn hoe Sat Lrent and starrg Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pasl — fally had s world premiere.

If happens to be a very attractive, extremely talented man, all the better, " says Ethan Hawke of playg gay oppose Pasl Almodovar's Strange Way of Life. It creat a nflict whether you’re straight or whether you’re gay. One askg whether the film uld have succeed as much as did if featured two men stead of two women, and the other suggtg s Palme w was a polilly motivated rponse to the anti-gay prottg simultaneoly occurrg Paris (where 150, 000+ people were prottg the recent legalizatn of same-sex marriage France).

” Clearly much lighter (and ls sexy) than the aforementned, ’s based on Gallienne’s own upbrgg, growg up as a female-intified boy who everyone thks is gay (Screen lled “somethg of a one-man La Cage x Foll”).

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So after 11 days of readg awe about this tr of French films, anticipatg they will all be among the first films I n to when they likely have their North Amerin premier at TIFF this fall, I fally got to have my own ltle dose of Cann Film Ftival’s gay ntent: Steven Sorbergh’s “Behd The Canlabra, ” the only LGBT film that screened at Cann that didn’t seem to w an award, and the only one I n now speak hontly about.

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They meet 1977, when Bob Black (Stt Bakula) fds the young Thorson at a gay bar and brgs him to one of Liberace’s shows.

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bottom, greed, ternalized homophobia, dg addictn, closetg, daddy. The film is also not at all toned down terms of the gay ntent. I would have que shocked to fd myself offend by the film tong down the gay.

In the early ‘90s, he sought the rights to adapt Tom Spanber’s “The Man Who Fell Love Wh the Moon, ” but says a Wtern wh gay wboys and Native Amerins was a tough sell. ”The 1949 Jam Cagney gangster film “Whe Heat, " for stance, Almodóvar says, would be jt the same if Edmund O'Brien's unrver mate was gay. In what The Hollywood Reporter scrib as a “mi rt, ” eager dience members were nied the chance to see Pedro Almodóvar’s new short film Strange Way Of Life, known lloquially on the Inter as the gay wtern starrg Pedro Pasl and Ethan Hawke.

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Unrstandably, those people were displeased wh beg shut out of the gay wtern, and “Many of them then scend upon secury officials mdg the gate, ” acrdg to Sorbo jos J as men nceled for Christian beliefsOffEnglishWhat unuth behavr at the Cann Film Ftival!

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