La mala educación (Bad Education)
2004
****
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Lluis Homar, Francisco Boira
A multilayered drama about two childhood friends, now a film director and an actor, the last of who has transformed their traumatic experiences in a Catholic school into a potent screenplay. This captivating Hitchcockian mystery smoothly combines the present tense, the flashbacks and the film within a film sctructure to form one version of the truth. The only things Almodovar doesn't offer in this concoction are women and heterosexuals.
