Sex, seeing and the power of story... Subjects that suffuse Pedro Almodóvar's 14th feature, an intense, oppressive thriller of transvesticism and child abuse: The Talented Mr Ripley cross-dressed by Alfred Hitchcock. Story circles within story as an aspiring actor (a strikingly pansexual Gael García Bernal) inveigles an old childhood friend and filmmaker (Fele Martínez) into shooting the true tale of his Catholic education under a pederastic priest. Filmed fact and fiction intertwine and overlap, as Almodóvar's semi-autobiographical film (and the film within the film) weaves a tawdry tapestry of lust, obsession and regret. Sinuous and unsettling.
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