A shame then that the story is so slight and small-scale I'd much rather watch a film like SPOTLIGHT as an exploration of similar themes. Almodovars genius in both Bad Education and Talk to Her is his ability to set the scene, stringing the audience along, lulling it into a sense of.
It doesn't make you like them, though indeed, they seem self-centred and rather hateful at times. There are some very explicit scenes in this film which are neither here nor there, although the acting is of a strong standard and you feel that the actors really inhabit their characters. The film seems more to have been made to promote a gay agenda, but take out the supposedly controversial material and you're left with very little. The narrative is confusing, positing some events as fictional and others as real life, and the use of three different time frames means that it's hard work just to keep up with what's taking place on the screen.
I wondered what I was watching for most of the running time. There is almost always an element of abnormal sexuality, and the several scenes of homosexual sex check that box. As I'm exploring Almodovar's oeuvre, I'm seeing similar subjects. It doesn't sound like the most lively or even enjoyable of premises and, indeed, it isn't. A drag queen convinces a film director to shoot a film about his childhood molestation by a priest. The story, which was also written by the director, is about a pair of young men who get involved with filming their life story, a life story which just so happens to include child abuse by a local priest in the 1960s. My first exposure to Pedro Almodovar and it's not been a great experience in fact, while watching I was wondering what all the fuss was about.
Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 3 / 10 Didn't do it for me
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