Two Short Films by Pedro Almodóvar

Strange Way of Life
“Pedro Almodovar’s richly acted, sumptuously photographed Strange Way of Life lives up to its title as a revisionist Western that embraces its classical genre roots while also carving out a very modern way of looking at the past.” —Stephen Garret, Observer.
A short Western drama written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as two gunslingers who reunite after many years.
31 minutes

Jeremy Thomas, producer of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987), makes a yearly land-and-sea pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival, traveling from London in an old sports car, often with one or two close friends in tow. This time director Mark Cousins is along for the ride, filming as they go. Their off-beat grand tour takes in landmarks and people connected to the producer's life and films—from the locations in Paris used in Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003) to Lyon, the birthplace of cinema, and on to the festival on the French Riviera.

94 minutes

This vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie (Lola Campbell), a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason (Harris Dickinson) arrives and forces her to confront reality. As they adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason find that they both still have a lot of growing up to do.

Join us for a free film screening immediately followed by a panel discussion moderated by former Chief Curator Michael Auping with Film Director Michael Flanagan and Artists Sedrick Huckaby and Linda Ridgway.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in partnership with Lone Star Film Festival and the Fort Worth Film Commission presents Breaking the Code a biographical documentary film about the life of Fort Worth-based artist Vernon Fisher. 

MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites.

Tickets available at the Museum's admission desk. Tickets are $10; $8 for Friend-level Modern members; $7 for Associate-level Modern members and above. 

Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years earlier, Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and his wife has since become his caretaker. As one of Chile's most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory, having been responsible for that herculean task following the Pinochet dictatorship and its systematic erasure of collective consciousness. Now he turns to the same challenge in his own life, trying to hold on to his identity with the help of his beloved partner.

Famed author Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of working class people in northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and few opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception and tries to rationalize that it's for the greater good.