‘Bitter Christmas’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s Playful New Film Nests Stories Within Stories, and Alter Egos Within Alter Egos

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Early in Pedro Almodóvar’s new film “Bitter Christmas,” a female filmmaker is briefly hospitalized, and the attending physician recognizes her as the director of an offbeat film from some years before. “I hear it became a cult film,” says the good doctor. “What does that mean?

Cult?

Evangelical?” It’s a good question.

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