Capo
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Post by Capo on Jun 1, 2007 2:48:21 GMT
La mala educación Bad Education Pedro Almodóvar 2004 Spain A filmmaker is visited by his first love, a boy with whom he received an education under a paedofile priest. One might make of Almodóvar's work, upon first glance, a style which emphasises the aesthetic over the emotionally intimate, which seems an absurd description given this film's dominant themes: child abuse, homosexuality, identity crises and the underlying finality of death. But there is an emotional core here, somewhere, though it might not necessarily hit home upon first viewing. For now, then, let us be fascinated by the director's control of lighting, colour, set design, and the intersecting fictions which compliment one another - what starts off as a childhood memory sparked by the reading of a script inside the film itself ends as a ludicrous murder mystery. Taken literally, it's very cartoonish at the end of the day (but even then, still very good), but it surely has a warmth inside of its narrative layers and films within films overlapping with memories within memories and actors playing characters in imagined memories before they become concrete actors in a film within the film. Impressive.
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