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Amarga Navidad (2026)

Drama | 111 minutes
2,00 2 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 111 minuten

Alternative titles: Bitter Christmas / Autofiction

Country: Spain

Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar

Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

IMDb score: 6,5 (2.069)

Releasedate: 20 March 2026

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Amarga Navidad plot

Elsa lost her mother in December and copes with her grief by devoting herself to her work. However, a panic attack changes her mind, forcing Elsa to take a forced break. She travels to Lanzarote with her good friend Patricia, while her boyfriend, Bonifacio, stays behind in Madrid.

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Not a bad film, this Autofiction (as it is called in our cinemas), but neither is it a film I will think back to as often as Hable con Ella or Volver. Two storylines intersect: in 2004, Elsa navigates a failing career as a film director and a series of panic attacks, while in the present, another film director on the decline, Raúl, begins a new script in which fiction and (auto)biography intertwine. The storyline in the past, however, is the most developed and features a particularly strong performance by Bárbara Lennie, making you truly empathize with her. What takes place in the present remains overshadowed by it the entire time. Leonardo Sbaraglia's character never fully comes to life, nor does the question of whether a writer is actually allowed to make use of other people's life events. And hadn't Almodóvar already made a film, Dolor y Gloria, about a director who resembled him, starring the much better Antonio Banderas?

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