Hadrian and Antinous in Egypt by Édouard-Henri Avril (1849 – 1928)
Queer cowboy flick with Pedro Pascal is now streaming
Pedro Almodóvar’s long-anticipated gay Western film, starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, is finally coming to a screen near you.
Strange Way of Life, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year followed by a limited theatrical release, is available for streaming on Netflix as of today. Almodóvar has described the 30-minute film as his “answer to Brokeback Mountain,” and the vibes definitely seem to match, judging from the trailer.
Pascal and Hawke play Silva and Sheriff Jake, former lovers who reunite after 25 years apart. But true to the bittersweet nature of Brokeback Mountain, the reunion isn’t quite a happy one: It just so happens that Sheriff Jake’s sister-in-law has been murdered, and it’s now his personal mission to arrest the killer.
Almodóvar told Variety last year that Strange Way of Life “is a queer western in the sense that there are two men, and they love each other, and they behave in that situation in an opposite way.”
Call the Ships to Port
A choir full of longing
Will call our ships to port
The countless lonely voices
Like whispers in the dark
Here we go again…
Sorry for the very slender fare of posts the last few days. Apparently my theme for this year is ” a new bug every month” because I caught a cold from hell just a month after getting over the last one. Fun. Anyway, I’m feeling a bit better again and am currently scheduling some posts for tomorrow.
