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Throughout his 30-year career, the filmmaker has managed to carve out a niche that only he can occupy, as the director of films that, although playfully titillating and wildly colorful, tell deeply humanist stories about characters for whom he has profound respect. It's a testament to Almodovar's skills as a storyteller and stylist that "Bad Education" qualifies as a gripping, old-style thriller, even when it traffics in the trashy tabloid melodrama and lurid pulp imagery to which Almodovar has always been devoted. Indeed, it's several unexpected visits that propel "Bad Education" along on its twisty course, wherein the vagaries of memory, desire, identity and deception intertwine in an increasingly kaleidoscopic tale of revenge. In the movie, a young filmmaker named Enrique (Fele Martinez) is paid a visit by an old chum from Catholic school named Angel (Gael Garcia Bernal), who has written a story called "The Visit" about their early experiences with a sexually predatory priest named Manolo. If "Talk to Her," Almodovar's last film, was a homage to everything female, then "Bad Education" is his chance to pay respect to the men who have informed his life and work, even if their motivations weren't always benign. The Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar is up to his usual tricks in "Bad Education," a rapturous movie-within-a-flashback-within-a-fantasy-sequence that combines the melodrama of Douglas Sirk, the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler, the tensile storytelling of Hitchcock and Almodovar's own signature sensibility.