Singing Loudly: Wishing I were there

Singing Loudly

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Wishing I were there

The Cannes Film Festival opened with Bad Education, the newest film by Pedro Almodovar. From the time when I first began to love movies, I think after watching Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet, I have been continually amazed by Almodovar's films. This one sounds like it should be very interesting as it "is a deliberate throwback to a kind of vintage film noir."

Set in 1980, with a flashback to 15 years earlier, it weaves a tale of two men, a director and an actor, who knew each other when they were schoolboys, and one of them was victim of a pedophile priest.

From how it sounds, I'm sure that he will get a lot of criticism for the subject he attacks. But, as he says better,
Although the film presents priests as pedophiles and murderers, he says he does not view the film as "anti-clerical" because "it is not necessary to be anti-clerical, because the Church is destroying itself every time it speaks to the press. In Spain, at any rate, the Church's worst enemy is the Church."

The rest of the article goes into boring stories about Quentin Tarantino.
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