Strange Way of Life may be a short, but by no means is it bite-sized in any way. It has everything you would anticipate in a Pedro Almodóvar film: melodrama, bold design, and impossibly beautiful actors playing characters burdened by long-held secrets from their pasts. What's different and especially exciting about this film is not just the fact that it's a Western — a first for the Spanish director — but, more importantly, how Almodóvar utilizes conventions of the genre to turn them on their head. The result is a sizzling short that forges its own path in the Old West.
