Camp at the Cinema: Strange Way of Life (2023)

Get ready for Camp at the Cinema, a funny, engaging and insightful cinema talk and screening of the modern melodrama ‘Strange Way of Life’ (2023) with a difference

Using the much loved sensibility of camp, Harry Clayton-Wright and Catherine Mugonyi build on their three part video series Camp in the Collection (2021) with this live cinema event that explores iconic moments on the silver screen. Using comedy, lip sync, short entertaining clips, well researched insights into cinema history and costume, the duo will entertain and educate audiences with their quest of curating the campest moments ever captured on film.

Camp at the Cinema takes a trip to the Wild West with Strange Way of Life, by director and leading light of modern melodrama Pedro Almodóvar.

Melodrama traditionally focuses on women’s inner lives. These ‘women’s pictures’, were created for female audiences with their favourite female stars, featuring characters whose sensationalist struggles carry searing social commentary beneath their glossy veneer. Strange Way of Life is our ‘wild card’, what if it’s Queer male relationships in the spotlight?

Former ‘hired guns’ Jake and Silva (Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal), meet again after 25 years of separation following a brief fiery affair. Jake’s transition to the ‘right side of the law’ has made a sheriff out this former gunslinger. Fate intervenes when a yearning Silva rides into town angling to reminisce and rekindle the romance. Before too long passion resurfaces, but things take a dramatic turn when a murder cover-up muddies the waters.

Stunning cinematography, lush design (Pascal and Hawke are styled to Western perfection in costumes courtesy of YSL) and a clear melodramatic tone will transport you to a sensuous world of lonesome cowboys.

Camp at the Cinema has been made possible with support from Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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