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IN AND OUT OF LOVE.(Biography)

The New Yorker

| November 22, 2004 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Let me tell you a story. In a Catholic school in a small town in rural Spain, two boys, Ignacio and Enrique, fell in love. They went to the movies together and touched each other--a consummation of sorts. But the boys were only eleven, and their friendship was broken up by the schoolmaster, a priest named Manolo. Father Manolo, however, wasn't simply enforcing the rules. He had already laid hands on Ignacio, a sweet-faced choirboy, and he wanted him entirely for himself.

Pedro Almodovar's triumphantly accomplished "Bad Education," which is both a summation of his career thus far and a deepening of his recent style, opens sixteen years later, in 1980. Ignacio ...

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