DramaComedy
Bitter Christmas
“You’re confusing fiction with reality.”
In 2025 Spain, a celebrated film director struggles to write the screenplay for an autofictional film set in 2004 Spain about an unsuccessful movie director turned director of commercials who suffers a panic attack that forces her to take a break by visiting the Canary Islands, where she begins work on a new film.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Esther García
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User score
118 votes
Status
Released
Released
December 11, 2016
Runtime
1h 52m
Language
Spanish
Budget → Revenue
$11.7M → $4.8M
Top cast
Bárbara Lennie
Elsa
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Raúl Durán
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Mónica
Victoria Luengo
Patricia
Patrick Criado
Bonifacio (Beau)
Milena Smit
Natalia
Quim Gutiérrez
Santi
Rossy de Palma
Gabriela
Carmen Machi
Médica
Diogo Belizario
Cliente de la terraza
Tusti de las Heras
Angelita
Gloria Muñoz
Madre de Elsa
Antonio Romero
Médico
María Morales
Doctora Patricia Otero
Amaia Romero
Ella misma
Belén Riquelme
Recepcionista de Urgencias
Miguel Ángel Gorbe
Camillero
Aitana Batres
Asistenta
Luis Jaspe
Camarero
Bruna Lucadamo
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