Pedro Almodóvar makes his Autofiction: trailer for the film in competition at Cannes
Will the 76-year-old Spanish director finally win the Palme d’Or?
Seven years later Pain gloryPedro Almodóvar makes his comeback in competition at the Cannes Film Festival with Autofiction (Amarga Christmas in VO). The film is released in cinemas in France on May 20, the day of its presentation on the Croisette, and its distributor, Pathé, is unveiling its trailer today.
After the will The room next doorshot in English with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, the director returns to Spain with a colorful comedy-drama with a lighter tone. He questions the creative process and portrays his doubts through a fictional double played by Leonardo Sbaraglia, a celebrated director who creates himself an alter ego to find inspiration. A mirror story where we find Bárbara Lennie, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo and Rossy De Palma.
Synopsis: Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When a tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he is inspired to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a director in full writing, whose journey begins to reflect his own. The two filmmakers become two sides of the same character, in a game of mirrors where the immodesty of autofiction reveals as much as it destroys. But how far can we go to tell a story?
Autofiction was already released in Spain on March 20, as authorized by the regulations of the Cannes Film Festival, where it received generally good reviews and achieved a better score than its last films at the local box office.
Pedro Almodovar is in competition for the 5th time in Cannes, where he has never received the Palme d’Or. He was rewarded twice by the jury with the Directing Prize in 1999 for All about my mother and the Screenplay Prize for Volver in 2006.
The trailer forAutofiction :
