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Amarga Christmas Arrived at Cinemas: What Critics Say About Almodóvar's Movie · Global Voices

Summary by Indie Hoy
Amarga Navidad, Pedro Almodóvar's new film, has already reached the cinemas. The dramatic feature film is starring Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia and represents the return of the consecrated Manchego director to the Spanish filming after the success of La habitación next door. The synopsis reads: "Elsa is a director of [...] See more news in Indie Hoy.

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It would not be wrong to say that Amarga Navidad, Pedro Almodóvar's most recent film, ends up coagulating the defining characteristics of his late period. Once again, the question of the impermanence and degradation of bodies is taken up again, and once again the density of the matter is countered by the deployment of metafictional games and playful operations. The place that used to occupy the excess is now inhabited by a more contemplative loo…

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Two women, afflicted by different things, weep while listening to Chavela Vargas’s latest live version of “La Llorona,” when she was nowhere to lose her voice. These women, of course, would have to be Pedro Almodóvar’s characters for a film entitled Amarga Navidad. They suffer. One by headaches derived from accumulating pain from the absence of one person in their life. The other, by discovering a deception so cynical that tears navigate between…

Amarga Navidad, Pedro Almodóvar's new film, has already reached the cinemas. The dramatic feature film is starring Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia and represents the return of the consecrated Manchego director to the Spanish filming after the success of La habitación next door. The synopsis reads: "Elsa is a director of [...] See more news in Indie Hoy.

Filme combines drama, self-fiction and moral dilemmas in a story traversed by the duel and the boundaries between real life and art. This Thursday it premieres in the cinemas of Argentina.

The Cinema America and a must-see poster: it premieres the new film by Pedro Almodóvar, Amarga Navidad, and projects a national film: Camila, by María Luisa Bemberg. In addition there is Unveiled Cycle and more national cinema with Memory of a mother and Risa and the booth of time. Amarga Navidad, by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, 2026, 111m. SAM [...] La entrada The America premieres "Amarga Navidad", the new one by Almodóvar was first published in Pa…

The Rosarina billboard is renewed this Thursday in all the cinemas of the city with films for all tastes: drama, terror, animé and action. Without a doubt, the main dish of the premieres will be the return of Pedro Almodóvar to the big screen. MARGA NAVIDAD The film tells the alternation of two stories: a starring Elsa, director of advertising, in 2004, during the long bridge of the Constitution of December. The second occurs in 2025; the star i…

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Folha de S.Paulo broke the news on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
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