La Mala Educación

Over at Korrketiv I have some good things to say about Bad Education. I watched the DVD version of Pedro Almodóvar's paean to Hitchcock and film noir this weekend, and while it is certainly one of the more well crafted movies I've seen in a while, it's also one of the most virulently anti-Catholic. The story has as its villain a priest in charge of an all boy's school in the Francofried Spain of the 1960's. If that adjective seems cumbersome, it's also important: the way political, moral and artistic power is used or abused is important to every character and plot development in the story. And it is a very good story.