#strange way of life 2023

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Strange Way of Life (2023)

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Extraña forma de vida (Pedro Almodóvar, 2023)

#Extraña forma de vida #Pedro Almodovar #Almodovar #Almodóvar #Pedro Almodóvar #Strange way of life #2023 #short film #Ethan Hawke #Pedro Pascal #quote #western #bath #bathroom #lgtb #lgtbi #lgtbiq

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Pedro Pascal in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life” May 26, 2023.

#Pedro Pascal #🍑 #Pedro Almodóvar #Strange Way of Life #2023 #2020s

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really loved this!!!!! #very intense but also a lot of interesting character introspection #love the virtual reality AI aspect!!!! though I do feel like. in the end I was expecting it to go way further with it? #(basically like instead of seeing the inside of the ship all the time they can 'be' in forests or aquariums or whatever) #no romance #(there’s side lesbians; and one flashback scene where she briefly wonders about kissing a random person; that's it) #emotional core about her mother and brother and best friend !! #i like that it gets into the flaws of 'humanity's last hope on another planet' bc like. yeah in real life things....don't work like that... #why is there zero acknowledgement that the concept of every one of them being expected to give birth being extremely fucked up? #like obviously everyone on board is there because they agreed with that but there’s not a single flashback of #when they found out that information; or mention of someone questioning it... #(for example a character mentions that they hid their mental health/use of a therapy animal bc they wouldn't have been let in and the - #eugenics around that is iffy to say the least) #but to me. pregnancy is horrifying and nobody questioning that was weird. #also there’s supposedly 80 people on board but we get to know less than 10 of them which felt a bit strange at points #Also! I love the cover. I can’t find the designer (the book info only credits the internal lllustrator..) #also: bird facts!

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STRANGE WAY OF LIFE - MATCHING ICONS

i'm so excited to see this, literally the dream of my life

buy me a kofi? https://ko-fi.com/krysss

#strange way of life #pedro pascal #ethan hawke #ethan hawke icons #pedro pascal icons #western #gay #gay western #matching icons #pedro pascal and ethan hawke #pedro almodovar #movies #cannes #movies 2023 #icons #gay cowboys

[k-wame]

a diamond or a drop pearl earring wud’ve made this look so fyre

#manu ríos #strange way of life #cannes 2023 #cannes film festival #menswear #beautiful men

[blodbranddod]

I like lists

#films #fave films #2023 movies #fave 2023 movies #personal #how to have sex #smoke sauna sisterhood #saltburn #joyland #monster #the old oak #broker #talk to me #the blue caftan #the promised land #the banshees of inisherin #subtraction #strange way of life #slow #fallen leaves #spider man into the spider verse #past lives #the teachers lounge #long post

[massivedreamer]

Guys, IT'S HAPPENING.

#pedro pascal #pedro almodóvar #cannes 2023 #strange way of life #gladiator 2 #spanish translation #pedro pascal fandom #im dead #im going feral

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The cast of Strange Way of Life wearing Saint Laurent at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17th 2023.

#manu ríos #jason fernández #josé condessa #george steane #ethan hawke #pedro almodóvar #saint laurent #strange way of life #cannes film festival #cannes #2023 #style #fashion #2020s

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Title: Strange Way of Life

Rating: R

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, Jason Fernández, José Condessa, Daniel Rived, Sara Sálamo, Manu Ríos, Pedro Casablanc, George Steane, Erenice Lohan, Oihana Cueto, Vasileios Papatheocharis

Release year: 2023

Genres: western, romance, drama

Blurb: After 25 years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his old friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting...but the next morning, Jake tells him the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane.

#strange way of life #r #pedro almodóvar #pedro almodovar #ethan hawke #pedro pascal #jason fernández #jason fernandez #josé condessa #jose condessa #daniel rived #2023 #western #romance #drama

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Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida) (2023) Pedro Almodóvar

January 1st 2024

#strange way of life #Extraña forma de vida #2023 #pedro almodóvar #ethan hawke #pedro pascal #short

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Extraña forma de vida (Pedro Almodóvar, 2023)

#Extraña forma de vida #Pedro Almodovar #Almodovar #Almodóvar #Pedro Almodóvar #Strange way of life #2023 #short film #Ethan Hawke #Pedro Pascal #western #quote #final scene #bed #life #lgtb #lgtbi #lgtbiq #loneliness

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Movies

Week Ending May 1st, 2023

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes +18

Strange Way Of Life

Scream VI +5

Miss Congeniality

The Super Mario Bros. Movie -1

Barbie -4

Lord of the Rings -4

The Little Mermaid

Avatar: The Way of Water -2

Iron Lung

Ghosted -10

The Hobbit +6

Top Gun: Maverick -3

Dune

Howl's Moving Castle

How to Train Your Dragon

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves -6

Frozen

Twilight -14

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous week. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last week.

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CANNES, France—The first thing you notice about Pedro Almodóvar’s new gay cowboy short film Strange Way of Life is how beautiful everything is. In fact, I noticed it even before the movie started when the cast took the stage at the Cannes Film Festival. The eternally attractive Ethan Hawke, who co-stars with Pedro Pascal, was joined by a group of four absolute hunks. “You can see the beauties I am with,” Almodóvar said upon taking the stage, before adding, “but they are also very good actors.”

And then the movie started and the beauty only enhanced. In this 30-minute short, the men are beautiful, the landscape is beautiful, the clothes are beautiful, and even the horses are beautiful. (Like, these are not your normal movie horses. They are stunning movie horses.)

The fact that everything is so gorgeous makes sense. Not only is this the work of Almodóvar, a man who infuses his images with colors so vivid you view them in ways you never imagined before, it’s also produced by fashion icon Saint Laurent and its creative director Anthony Vaccarello.

But Strange Way of Life doesn’t feel like a fashion house advertisement, even though Pascal and Hawke are wearing bespoke duds. (Pascal's technicolor green jacket is an instantly covetable look.) Instead it’s a very Almodóvar tale, a melodrama laced with a hint of violence about two old lovers who meet after 25 years.

The film opens with yet another beautiful man singing a plaintive ballad, as a rancher named Silva (Pascal) rides into town to visit his old friend Jake (Hawke), now a sheriff. (Pascal was not on the ground in Cannes, but his entrance was met with some wolf-whistle adjacent “woos” from those seated near me.) Silva explains he is there to see a doctor for his bad back. They two have dinner, drink wine, and then end up in bed together. The morning after the two have sex, Jake remarks that Silva must have lied about the reason for his arrival: His back doesn’t seem all that bad.

It’s here I will note: that Strange Way of Life isn’t all that explicit. Almodóvar shows Hawke staring at Pascal's ass before approaching and kissing his neck, followed by a cut to black. There is some brief post-coital nudity, but that's all. But this is not to say that it’s not sensual. The director is more interested in the tumultuous history of the lovers than he is in other provocations.

Soon their interaction turns hostile when Jake realizes why Silva has really returned: He is there to protect his son, who is suspected to have murdered Jake’s dead brother’s wife. The tryst turns into a chase, where both have lustful memories of the first time they hooked up. (In these wine-drenched flashbacks they are portrayed by two extremely hot younger, modelesque actors.)

Without spoiling what happens, Almodóvar finds an ending that is both very romantic and a little fucked up. Think: Gay western Phantom Thread.

Because of the all too brief running time it's possible to feel a little shortchanged by Strange Way of Life. You want more of these characters and these images. At the same time, it's a pleasure to get to spend a tiny bit of time in Almodóvar's vision of what a western can be.

At Cannes, the premiere was followed by a conversation with Hawke and the director, which was largely conducted in French and Spanish. But when Almodóvar did answer a question in English, he discussed the western's place in modern cinema. He highlighted recent films by directors Jane Campion, Kelly Reichardt, and Chloé Zhao as examples of how the genre is alive, before throwing in pointed diss toward Taylor Sheridan's TV show Yellowstone, as evidence of how not to do it. “To me the series is very traditional, in the worst way,” he said.

So maybe just think of Strange Way of Life as Pedro Almodóvar's anti-Yellowstone. And isn't that exciting?

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Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life” May 26, 2023.

#Pedro Almodóvar #Strange Way of Life #2023 #2020s #Short Film #Western #Romantic Drama #Drama #🏳️‍🌈 #Pedro Pascal #Ethan Hawke #2/5

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very pookie of him

#ethan hawke #ethan hawke my beloved #handsome hawke #wrap him up i'll take two #i love him your honor #cannes film festival 2023 #cannes film festival #strange way of life