Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar has revealed that his Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke-led queer western short “Strange Way of Life” will premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival.
Almodovar revealed the news on Dua Lipa’s At Your Service podcast (via Variety. The half-hour film is shot in English in which two men, who worked together as hired gunmen 25 years ago, are reunited when one visits the other who is now a small town sheriff.
Previously dubbing it to be ‘his Brokeback Mountain’, Almodovar says it both has a lot of classic western elements mixed with stuff rarely seen in the genre:
“It’s about masculinity in a deep sense, because the Western is a male genre. What I can tell you about the film is that it has a lot of the elements of the Western – it has the gunslinger, it has the ranch, it has the sheriff – but what it has that most Westerns don’t have is the kind of dialogue that I don’t think a Western film has ever captured between two men.”
Manu RÃos, Jason Fernández, Pedro Casablanc, José Condessa and Sara Salamo co-star in the project.
