FROM 16 Sep
Bitter Christmas
Pedro Almodóvar
An advertising director faces a turbulent Christmas weekend. 20 years later, a filmmaker turns her story into a screenplay, blurring the lines between reality, fiction and the people closest to him.



Lorenzo Lanzillotti’s autobiographical study of a relationship under stress, recounted by a young man struggling with bipolar disorder, is a homage to 60s cinema, switching from black-and-white to colour and back again.
Imaginatively photographed in the countryside near Lake Garda, and with an impressive score, the film rewards patience. Warning: during a protracted sequence on a golf course, anyone in the audience who loves the game is advised to avert his or her eyes.
- INDIE FILM