The first reactions for Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar's queer Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, are here.
The short film, which premiered this week at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, sees Hawke play a sheriff named Jake while Pascal is a gunslinger called Silva. The pair live on opposite sides of the desert and haven't seen each other for 25 years – when they both worked as hired gunmen. In the 30-minute English-language film, Silva rides a horse across a desert to Bitter Creek to visit Sheriff Jake. Silva tells him that he's there to rekindle their friendship, but Jake knows it's something much more.
