Review of Amarga Navidad (Bitter Christmas)

Not one of Almodovar's best, though still a feast for the eye. A youngish woman, Elsa, has given up proper film-making for commercials, but she is writing the script for a film, drawing on the lives of people she is close to for the narrative. As the film progresses these people - notably her young friend Natalia, who has lost a child - find out that they are in her script and become angry. 

But it turns out that Elsa herself is a character in a film script, being written by an ageing director clearly based on Almodovar himself, who is also basing his narrative and characters from people he actually knows - and they don't like it either. As the film-within-the-film, and the film itself, come to an end there are several abrupt and unsatisfactory endings.

Watched at Jane's house - I think she streamed it from Amazon Prime.