This film by Pedro Almodovar and starring the talented Gael Garcia Bernal is supposedly autobiographical. I'm making no further assumptions about Slmodovar's life - this is strong stuff. Bernal plays both a man and a woman/transexual and the movie is the story of how two boys were affected by the abuse they received at a Catholic boys school. Both are scarred by the treatment they receive from the Father Principal of the School, but their lives turn out very differently. The story begins as the two are reunited when one (Enrique) is a film maker and the other an actor ('Angel') who has a screenplay written by (he says) himself. Enrique reads the play and finds he is one of the characters featured. As with all Almodovar's films there is a lot of confusing movements backwards & forwards in the story, it is a thriller, full of suspense and highly erotic content. He is very good at exploring relationships and depicting people on the edges of society - the misfits, the abnormal - or perhaps extraordinary characters. Many of his characters are ruthless in their desire to achieve everything for themselves - ammoral as well as immoral. A thought provoking film. Rating: 8/10
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