Pedro Almodóvar’s short film “Strange Way of Life,” starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, is the Spanish filmmaker’s response to Ang Lee’s adaptation of “Brokeback Mountain.”
, and was so struck by an exchange between protagonists Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist that he spent years nursing a response. Two decades on, he’s unveiled a queer Western of his own: a thirty-one-minute short entitled “Strange Way of Life.” The film, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, is decidedly an original creation, but the rhymes between the two love stories are revealing.
Pascal’s cowboy is all warmth and flirtation, given to dreamy invocations of the couple’s shared “fate” and “destiny,” which Hawke’s sheriff gruffly resists. After the repressed intensity of Pascal’s performance as Joel, another grizzled gunslinger, in “,” the role reversal is a pleasurable one: here, his capacity to communicate deep-seated emotions in a glance is used to very different effect.
The vibrant production design, funny, forthright dialogue, and narrative swerves from desire to violence are all hallmarks of, who seems to delight in playing with the masculinity of the genre and of his leads. But his signature raunchiness has given way to a more subdued interest in the moments before and after the act itself, with attraction conveyed through brief touches and long looks.
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