After filming his first movie in English “Next Room”, with whom actress Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore had, Pedro Almodóvar returns home for his other project, which has already started shooting between Madrid and Lanzarote. It’s a movie “Bitter Christmas”, as always produced by desires and stars Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo sbaglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit Smit and Quim Gutiérrez. The new feature film Manchega gets into theaters in 2026 Warner Bros. Pictures of Spain and posting Movistar Plus+.
Quim Gutiérrez and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón in the film. / Daslu desire, more photographs of churches
The story again contains some of the most almodovarian elements: death, memory of the mother character and a vital crisis, which will allow the protagonist to reconsider her life. Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during the long bridge of December. Find a refuge at work, although it’s more of a flight forward.
The protagonist of the story works without stopping and, without realizing it, the time needed to save the fight for the absence of mothers is not awarded. Until the panic crisis will stop it and not take a break. His partner, Bonifacio, is his table of salvation in those moments of the crisis. Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote, accompanied by her girlfriend Patricia, who also has to get away from Madrid while Bonifacio remains in the city.
The story of these three characters and some others are told parallel to the story Screenplay and film director Raúl Durán, Screen fiction and reality. Because “Bitter Christmas” is developing how the life and fiction are unavailable inseparable, even sometimes painful, “according to the producer.
