Bitter Christmas
THE NEW FILM FROM ALMODOVAR
Palme d'Or nominated - Cannes Film Festival 2026
"Bitter Christmas is very much par for the course when it comes to late period Almodóvar. And what a course!"- Little White Lies
"Almodóvar at his most acerbic" - Financial Times ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories, one starring Elsa, an advertising director, in 2004, during a long weekend in December. The second takes place in 2026 and stars Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is writing a script that we soon discover is the story of Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia. Mixed with fiction, Elsa is, in a way, Raúl's alter ego, who, like him, resorts to autofiction as a solution to a long period of creative drought. He looks inside himself, and he can't help but also look at the people who make up his most intimate universe: his partner and his assistant. The film narrates the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life, exploring the limits of autofiction and stories within stories.
| Age Rating: | 15 |
| Language: | Spanish with subtitles |
| Content / Trigger Warnings: | strong sex references |
| Director: | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Cast: | Bárbara Lennie, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rossy de Palma, Milena Smit, Leonardo Sbaraglia |
| Company: | Curzon Artificial Eye |
| Trailers: | 20 mins |
| Year of Release: | 2026 |
