With its bemused view of the veniality and hypocrisy of the human heart, Dark Habits brings Almodóvar perhaps the closest to his great Spanish precursor, Luis Buñuel, and the gulfs between public belief and private behavior, between religious dogma and human experience that were often an inspiration for Buñuel’s dark comedies. Taking place almost entirely in a crumbling convent where a punkish young singer takes refuge after her boyfriend overdoses, Dark Habits offers a clear and questioning allegory for the church’s changing role in contemporary Spain.