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19/03/2004 Drama, Crime 1h 45m
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Overview

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

  1. Pedro Almodóvar

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gael García Bernal

    Ángel / Juan / Zahara

  2. Fele Martínez

    Enrique Goded

  3. Daniel Giménez Cacho

    Padre Manolo

  4. Lluís Homar

    Sr. Berenguer

  5. Francisco Maestre

    Padre José

  6. Francisco Boira

    Ignacio

  7. Juan Fernández

    Martín

  8. Nacho Pérez

    Young Ignacio

  9. Raúl García Forneiro

    Young Enrique

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-09-04
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....read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Spanish

Budget
$5,000,000.00

Revenue
$40,266,982.00

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