1980年、マドリード。新進気鋭の映画監督エンリケ（フェレ・マルチネス）の元に、神学校の寄宿舎で共に少年時代を過ごしたイグナシオ（ガエル・ガルシア・ベルナル）が訪ねてくる。幼い頃の面影が全くないイグナシオにエンリケはとまどうが……。
製作費: $5,000,000 (8億円)
興行収入: $40,266,982 (60億円)
推定収支: $35,266,982 (53億円)
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監督: ペドロ・アルモドバル
脚本: ペドロ・アルモドバル
音楽: アルベルト・イグレシアス
制作: Agustín Almodóvar / Esther García / ペドロ・アルモドバル
撮影監督: ホセ・ルイス・アルカイネ
制作会社: El Deseo
This film treads the fine line between providing an entertaining and sexy piece of cinema with the identification of the serious issues of sexual abuse committed if not always by the clergy, then certainly under their auspices, in Franco's Spain. The story centres around aspiring actor "Angel" (Gael Garciá Bernal) who turns up, unannounced, at the door of his former schoolfriend. This man "Enrique" (Fele Martinez) has gone on to become a successful film director and, perhaps optimistically, "Angel" hopes that the unfinished manuscript he has brought might turn out to be his ticket to success. It transpires that these men have not seen each other since school (some 16 years earlier) and that this document is semi-autobiographical - it takes both back to their childhood where, under the supervision of "Fr. Manolo" (Daniel Giménez Cacho) they attended a catholic school where they had sexual encounters with each other and with others with varying degrees willingness. The story is dark, certainly, but here is plenty of humour and shagging as the story unfolds. We are deliberately left to judge the extent to which "Angel" is being truthful, fanciful or just plain enthusiastic, and we are also offered a fairly unique take on how vengeance might be applied. The narrative is complex, the timelines and characters shift making it quite a thought provoking film to both watch and begin to understand. Well worth it, though!
