Tag: Bitter Christmas
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) | Review
Women on the Verge of a Creative Breakdown: Almodovar Explores Anxious Inspirations
“All literature is gossip,” quipped Truman Capote, an iconoclast whose predilection for ‘borrowing’...
2026 NYFF: Schleinzer, Chang-dong, Sangsoo, Hamaguchi & Mani Haghighi (Surprise!) in Main Slate
As expected there was going to be a larger Cannes (including Quinzaine) cross-over than a Venice presence at this year's NYFF. While the Palme...
2026 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Takashi Miike & Michael Dowse to World Preem in Special Presentations Programme
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shinya Tsukamoto and Lee Chang-dong are the doing the Venice to Toronto double down, Jesse Eisenberg is sticking to a Telluride and...
2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’
The only title to have had its world premiere prior to hitting the south of France is Bitter Christmas from Spain's Pedro Almodóvar. The...
You BETcha!: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’, ‘Fjord’ & ‘Minotaur’ are Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
We’re two for two. After nailing both Sundance’s top winner and the Golden Bear with our YouBETcha! predictions, we now turn to the Palme...
2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp
A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according to Thierry Frémaux, one more potential last minute Palme d'Or contender addition to be announced...
2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Palme d’Or – Part 1
In less than two weeks, Thierry Frémaux will unveil the (never 100% complete but always tantalizingly close) lineup for the 79th edition of the...
Non Yuletide Spirit: Pedro Almodóvar Filming “Bitter Christmas” with Victoria Luengo & Patrick Criado
Fresh from the Croisette as producers on the Jury Prize winner Oliver Laxe's Sirât, Pedro Almodóvar is getting into the Yuletide spirit this June....
