Pedro Almodóvar's new film, 'Strange Way of Life', marks a departure for the Spanish filmmaker known for vibrant, colorful films. The English-language feature explores the dark theme of death through the story of a war correspondent facing terminal cancer who seeks a peaceful ending with the help of an old colleague. Despite the somber subject matter, the film retains Almodóvar's signature style with poetic dialogue and a focus on female characters.
For fans of Pedro Almodóvar—the director best known for vibrant, colorful films with melodramatic characters and wild plot lines—his latest, the, might feel like a departure. Compared to previous works, the Spanish filmmaker’s first full-length English-language feature is a relatively muted affair centered on a dark theme: death.
I know that my way of writing dialogues is not exactly realistic. People don’t speak Spanish the way they do in my movies, either. I didn’t want to change my identity as a writer. I wanted to keep the same flavor. I didn’t want the film to be overly sentimental or cheesy, but I discovered that I really couldn’t change my color palette. Take the color red, which is so important in my films—there’s a red lamp, the red door, the red lipstick. The colors are there to represent Tilda’s past, because prior to getting sick, she was a very baroque woman. They represent that aspect of her life and her vitality. She’s deciding to do euthanasia.
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