Almodóvar dazzles at Cannes Film Festival with gay western

Cannes (France) May 15 (EFE).- Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film featuring star of the moment Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke was screened on Wednesday at Cannes Film Festival amid rapturous applause.

Strange Way of Life explores the romantic relationship between two cowboys with Almodóvar’s trademark auteur style.

SOUNDBITES IN SPANISH OF PEDRO ALMODÓVAR, DIRECTOR.

TRANSLATION:

1. "So I had written the Cowboys dialogue after having a crazy night and I left it on the computer, in fact I have a lot of them”.

2. “Anthony Vacarello, from YSL, called me and showed up at the hotel because I was in Los Angeles, telling me that they wanted to do something with me and then I immediately thought of that”

3. “And I did it in the form of a Western because I had already written dialogue that I thought was much more interesting than two men talking about their own desire, in a genre that had never touched on that and being an absolutely masculine genre like the Western". 4. "I called them and luckily they both immediately said yes. I just had to wait a few months for Pascal to finish shooting The Last of Us, then he came over (to Spain) and we finished it after last summer." 5. "And this one is much more comprehensive, with fewer characters. They are basically women in an extreme situation and everyone is contemporary, there is no need to manufacture clothes and that is very important for me, that all the atrezzo (props) is affordable".

6. "It's rare, you don't have the nerves of the competition but rather the excitement of seeing what's going on with the spectators, seeing how they react"