(rated R) It’s Madrid 1980, when Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal of “The Motorcycle Diaries”) an unemployed actor, knocks on the door of his childhood best friend Enrique (Fele Martinez) that he hasn’t seen in sixteen years. Coincidentally, Ignacio has written a script called “The Visit” that Enrique is anxious to direct, since he’s going through a creative dry spell. It all seems perfect until the reading of the script opens up repressed soccer games, twisted Priests from their grammar school, and the distortion of spirit, hypocrisy and fear, in which their faith is challenged. Father Manolo resurfaces both in the film and in their real life only to unfold an unexpected and tragic ending. In this movie, the femme fatale is an “enfant terrible”, emerging slowly in the character of Ignacio, a man cursed in the shape of a woman – a transvestite, hungry for love and an understanding, of where his life went wrong. Directed by Pedro Almodovar, responsible for such dramatic and provocative studies (i.e. the critically acclaimed “Talk To Her”) Almodovar brings us a film that not only continues to deliver until its last scene, but has a sick driving force that comes off as a guilty voluptuous experience.
