Almodovar reveals film's bad memories of child sex abuse

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By Ian Youngs
BBC News Online in Cannes

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This year's Cannes Film Festival has been opened by the new film by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his last offering, Talk To Her.

Mr Almodovar has revealed that La Mala Educacion (Bad Education), dealing with the dark subject of abuse by priests in a Catholic school in the 1960s, was partly based on experiences at his own school.

The film, which has had a rapturous reception from critics, centres on the consequences of a priest falling in love with and trying to abuse one of his pupils.

"Yes, I knew priests who acted like that and yes, I knew children who suffered abuse," Mr Almodovar said.
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