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Pedro Almodóvar explores how good friends can get so angry in 'Bitter Christmas'

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Published November 13, 2026

In this film-within-a-film, Almodóvar explores how the closest pals can suddenly become bitterly estranged — and all the ways that art imitates life (and vice versa).

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