La mala educación (Bad Education)
2004
****
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Lluis Homar, Francisco Boira, Raúl García Forneiro, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Javier Cámara, Petra Martínez, Leonor Watling
Two childhood friends, Enrique (film director) and Ignacio (actor), are reunited after 16 years. Ignacio has transformed their traumatic experiences in a Catholic school into a potent screenplay. This captivating Hitchcockian mystery smoothly operates between the present tense, the flashbacks, and the film within a film structure to form a version of the truth. There are a few things that Almodóvar's multilayered drama doesn't offer, that is female characters and straight men.
