Bitter Christmas

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
R; 111 minutes

“[Almodóvar] nests one story inside another, leaps between them with breathtaking fluidity, and brings them both to a virtuosic, if abrupt, finish.” —Justin Chang, The New Yorker

After her mother’s death, advertising director Elsa buries herself in work until a panic attack forces her to stop. A restorative trip with a friend begins to intertwine memory, grief, and the screenplay of a filmmaker who tells her story years later.

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