The first images of Bitter Christmasthe film that Pedro Almodóvar will premiere on March 20 and will show characters narrating in light of an apparent mystery, with the suggestive soundtrack of Alberto Iglesias and with magnificent landscapes of Lanzarote and Madrid as a backdrop.
After knowing the poster of the film, the production company El Deseo published this Thursday the trailer which shows scenes of Bárbara Lennie and Milena Smit on a beach and walking in a volcanic landscape; Leonardo Sbaraglia writes; Aitana Sánchez-Gijón crying in the street, Patrick Criado spying behind the scenes or Vicky Luengo and Quim Gutiérrez in respective and intense dialogues.
According to the synopsis put forward by the production company, the plot of Bitter Christmas revolves around Elsa (Barbara Lennie), an advertising executive whose mother dies during a December long weekend and this finds refuge in work, even if it is more of a flight forward.
He works non-stop and, without realizing it, he does not give himself the time necessary to mourn the absence of his mother. Until a panic attack forced him to stop and take a break.. Her partner, Bonifacio, is her lifeline in these moments of crisis.
Elsa decides to go to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patriciawho also has to move away from Madrid, while Bonifacio remains in the city.
The story of these three characters, and a few others, The narration parallels that of the screenwriter and director Raúl Durán (Leonardo Sbaraglia)mixing fiction and reality.
The film marks Almodóvar’s return to Spanish after The next room, with which he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last year.
Many interpreters of his new work have already collaborated with him, in addition to the real “Almodóvar daughter”. Rossy de Palma.
Barbara Lennie appeared in The skin I live in (2011), the Argentinian Leonardo Sbaraglia in Pain and glory (2019), Victoria Luengo worked on The next room (2024) and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Milena Smit placed themselves under the orders of the director of La Mancha in Parallel mothers (2021).
Patrick Criado and Quim Gutiérrez make their debut in this universealthough the latter worked in Skip the liesa series produced by El Deseo.
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