Friday
Aug042023
Two Shorts = One Feature, sí?
Friday, August 4, 2023 at 9:00PM by Nathaniel R
You may have heard that Sony Pictures Classics has decided on a release strategy for Pedro Almodóvar's short Strange Way of Life (which Elisa reviewed at Cannes). It will debut in NY & LA theaters on Wednesday October 4th and expand that Friday Oct 6th to other cities. Since the western starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as lovers is only 31 minutes long it will be paired in release with the auteur's only previous English language effort, The Human Voice (reviewed here in 2020) which starred Tilda Swinton and is 30 minutes long.
Together that's just one hour and a single minute of cinema but it's Almodóvar so it stands to reason it's worth the ticket price. Do you think people will shell out for a double-short bill?
Reader Comments (6)
I feel like the people who would see STRANGE WAY OF LIFE would've surely already seen HUMAN VOICE. But then again they might also be the same people who love to re-watch things so... yes? Looking forward to his new short (I have seen... and liked HUMAN VOICE).
When I heard they were releasing theatrically, "Strange Way of Life", I figured they would pair it with "Human Voice". I wasn't really impressed with "Human Voice" but this is a good opportunity to give it a second chance.
I'll pay money to see both shorts. Hell yeah. Almodovar rules! The Human Voice and Parallel Mothers along with Strange Way of Life are the films of Almodovar that I haven't seen.
This is so great! Never got around to The Human Voice, now I can knock out both.
After the bladder busting Oppenheimer, and the continual expansion of movies to 2.5+ hour run times, I am 1000000% fine with an hour of Almodovar.
I'm in! I have seen The Human Voice, but not on the big screen, so this is a good opportunity to experience it theatrically.