Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American rights to “Bitter Christmas”, written and directed by the frequent collaborator Pedro Almodóvar (“Talk to Her”, “All About My Mother”, “Pain and Glory”) and produced by Almodóvar’s Longtime -Product Tuesday.
“Bitter Christmas” follows Elsa, an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works without a stop and without realizing does not give herself to mourn her mother’s absence. After a moment of Kris, Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia. The story of these characters goes in parallel with a screenwriter and film director and explores how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painful.
The movie, which recently wrapped production, Stars Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gión (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Smito (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick. (“Parallel Mothers”), Quim Gutiérrez (“Dark Blue Almost Black”) and Rossy de Palma (“Parallel mothers”). Several of these actors have appeared in former Almodóvar/Sony Pictures Classics collaborations, including Luengo in “The Room Next Door”; Sánchez-Gijón, Smit and De Palma in “Parallel Mothers”; Sbaraglia in “pain and glory” and “wild stories”; And Lennie in “The Skin in Live In”.
Further remarkable film Creativity includes head of photography Pau Esteve Birba (“The Good Boss”), Production Designer Antxon Gómez (“Pain and glory”) and composer Alberto Iglesias (“Room next to”, “Parallel mothers”, “Pain and glory”).
This acquisition marks the latest chapter in the stored relationship between Sony Pictures Classics and Almodóvar. Last The distributor released Almodóvar’s first English -language film “The Room Next Door,” who took home Golden Lion at last year’s Venice International Film Festival; the short film “Strange Way of Life”; And Oscar-nominees have “parallel mothers” and “pain and glory.”
The deal was negotiated between Sony Pictures Classics And Almodóvar’s production company, El Deseo, on behalf of the filmmaker.
