The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival finds filmmakers tackling prickly material with a warmer lens — or avoiding it altogether.

A lavish, MGM-style musical is not typical Sundance Film Festival fare. But Sunday night Bill Condon brought such a creation — well, part of one — to Park City, Utah, with his adaptation of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,

Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ from director Bill Condon, premiered in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 26Jennifer Lopez premiered her very first movie musical in snowy Utah. At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City on Sunday,

That may dampen down following its Sundance world premiere, although Lopez will trail publicity wherever she goes, particularly as ex-husband Affleck is involved. This will play best to a musical theatre fans who will appreciate Condon’s staging (the fact he wrote Chicago is clear to see),

The plot in the new film follows the original in that it is centered on a political prisoner (played by Diego Luna) in Argentina who shares a cell with a queer window dresser (Elizarraraz), where they talk about the plot of a Hollywood musical starring a talented actress (Lopez).

Jennifer Lopez dressed to impress at the world premiere of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Making a fashion statement at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City on Sunday, January 26, the