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‘Bitter Christmas’ Assessment: Pedro Almodóvar’s Playful New Movie Nests Tales Inside Tales, and Alter Egos Inside Alter Egos

Early in Pedro Almodóvar’s new movie “Bitter Christmas,” a feminine filmmaker is briefly hospitalized, and the attending doctor acknowledges her because the director of an offbeat movie from some years earlier than. “I hear it became a cult film,” says the great physician. “What does that mean? Cult? Evangelical?” It’s an excellent query. The movies […]