Almodovar, Pedro, (XIII), Juan Fernández, Bernal, Gael García, Boira, Francisco, Cámara, Javier, Ferreiro, Alberto	...	(Director)
Pedro Almodóvar	...	(Writer)
Gael García Bernal	...	Ángel
Fele Martínez	...	Enrique Goded
Daniel Giménez Cacho	...	Padre Manolo
Lluís Homar	...	Sr. Manuel Berenguer
Francisco Maestre	...	Padre José
Francisco Boira	...	Ignacio
Juan Fernández	...	Martín
Nacho Pérez	...	Ignacio
Raúl García Forneiro	...	Enrique
Javier Cámara	...	Paca
Alberto Ferreiro	...	Enrique Serrano
Petra Martínez	...	Madre
Sandra	...
Roberto Hoyas	...	Camarero
Gael Garcia Bernal	...	Angel
Leonor Watling	...	Monica
Paco Delgado	...	Costume Design
Sara Montiel	...	Soledad
José Luis Alcaine	...	Cinematographer
Esther García	...	Executive Producer
Miguel Rejas	...	Sound Designer
Joserra Cadiñanos	...	Casting
Antxón Gómez	...	Production Design
José Salcedo	...	Editor
Alberto Iglesias	...	Original Music Composer

Comments: DSP 195

Summary: Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar's dark, sexy Hitchcock homage is his best work since his Oscar-winning All About My Mother, and deepened by a sun-dappled sadness. Handsome, enigmatic Ángel (Gael García Bernal) arrives at the Spanish movie offices of director Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez) and happily proclaims that he's actually Enrique's long-lost school chum Ignacio--an announcement that is both less than convincing and more than it seems. A novice actor, Ángel pitches a semi-autobiographical screenplay in which he's determined to star, a revenge-laden reflection of the doomed love he and Enrique shared as boys before a pedophile priest cruelly intervened. The script, and the lost days it recalls, carefully unfurls into a series of brooding movies-within-movies and memories-inside-memories, which allow the sensual, multiple-role-playing Bernal to give the performance of his young career--among other things, he makes a stunningly convincing drag queen--and Almodóvar the opportunity to movingly suggest that people will pay any price to ensure that their stories are told. --Steve Wiecking