Monday, April 16, 2012
WHO'S ON FIRST?
Today's gay film was the film noir of Pedro Almodovar
La mala educación / Bad Education (2004)
with one of my favorites, Gael García Bernal who plays three roles, locked in each. No pour over. Clear separation. Well, with the help of a little makeup.
This is a film which is all homo all the time without being queer about it.
You figure it out.
Actually while we are figuring it out we don't get to think too much about what we are seeing on that plane. There is some great skin and very skillful acting by all the cast who are also thrown into three distinct time periods which go around and come around as the core story gets told, retold, and told again.
Yeh. I am not telling you a thing. No spoilers. And everything is a spoiler.
This is very high art gay filming. But then that is who Almodovar is. A high concept gay man.
I have seen this film three times and each time I get something different out of it. I also get lost in the story and "forget" what I saw last time.
I loved the front titles. Bang!
The word "masterpiece" rolls around a lot of reviews of this film. I agree.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
