Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director

Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Bárbara Lennie star in this semi-autobiographical meta-fiction about a film director whose screenplay violates a close friend’s…

'Bitter Christmas' is mid-tier Pedro Almodóvar: immaculately art-directed and color-blocked, as per, and plenty enjoyable.

Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director

The director revisits many of the ideas he's been circling over the past decade, but the colorful filmmaking arrives in typical fashion.

The melodrama, which premiered in competition at the French festival, marks the 76-year-old director’s return to his native language after making his English-language debut with…

Eventually the Spanish auteur pulls the film’s threads together into a sharp and unexpectedly brilliant punchline