A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship……
STRANGE WAY OF LIFE is the new English Language short film from Pedro Almodovar starring stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. It will be paired with the director’s previous English language short, THE HUMAN VOICE, starring Tilda Swinton.
Following the two films, there is a 30-minute conversation with Almodovar to the end of the program, In the conversation, Almodovar, discusses the writing process that led to making of Strange Way of Life and his love of Westerns.
