Well, it certainly looks lovely, as you would expect from the first offering from Saint Laurent Productions, a subsidiary of the luxury fashion goods label Yves Saint Laurent. And the orchestral score, by Alberto Iglesias, is glorious – lavish, full-blooded and swooping. But otherwise, this wispy snippet of gay cowboy drama from Pedro Almodóvar, which stars Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as reunited former lovers, is sadly synthetic and underpowered. Both Pascal and Hawke do their best, but with writing as inauthentic and cursory as this, there’s little they can do to elevate the material.

• In cinemas for one day only, on 25 September