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- ClergyTranssexualPsychologicalDangerous AttractionSexual AbuseBoarding School LifeGender BendingHaunted By the Past more...
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- DramaMysteryThrillerForeignRomance
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- 20th Century60s70s80s
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- EuropeSpainBoarding School
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- Film in FilmNonlinear
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Sexual ContentViolent Content
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Bad Education, 2004
Spanish, Latin
Spain
Profile of Bad Education
The mood of Bad Education is contemplative, atmospheric, and stylized. The plot centers around being transsexual, boarding school life, and sexual abuse. It is a drama, foreign, and thriller movie. Stylistically, Bad Education is nonlinear and is a film in a film. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Spain. Bad Education happens in the 1960s and in the 1980s. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes sexual content and violent content.
Summary of Bad Education
In this powerful semi-autobiographical film, acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, TALK TO HER) tracks the formative experiences of his coming of age in a Catholic boys school. While the film benefits from Almodovar's limitless range of color, beauty, and moving expression, the themes presented are dark and difficult. Pedophilia, lost love, mistaken identity, manipulation, drug addiction, and desperation prevail, giving this otherwise sexy and vibrant film a chilling subtext.
Gael Garcia Bernal gives a jaw-dropping performance, playing two of the main characters. First, he plays a screenwriter named Ignacio, who reunites with his childhood friend, Enrique (Fele Martinez), a filmmaker, to sell him a script called "The Visit." He also plays the star of "The Visit"--a gorgeous cross-dresser and drug addict named Zahara. Enrique instantly realizes that the script is the story of their childhood, where they met and fell in love, only to be torn apart by a jealous pedophilic priest, Father Manolo (Daniel Gimenez-Cacho). However, Ignacio looks nothing like the boy that Enrique remembers as his best friend and first love. As the mystery of their past begins to unfold, layers of lies and deception are peeled away to reveal a delicate core of innocence lost. Almodovar's message is not one of hopelessness--it is rather a recognition of the inevitable hardening of the soul that is fundamental to survival in a less-than-perfect world.
Details
| Language: | Spanish, Latin |
| Country: | Spain |
| Release date: | 5 September 2004 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ángel / Juan / Zahara
as Enrique Goded
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
The New York Times
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- by: Stephen Holden
Users Reviews
- 20.September.2010
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- by: felixxx999
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- 25.October.2008
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- by: ani
- ani rated this movie7/10Good
