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- 2004
- NC-17
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 46 m
- 2004
- NC-17
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 46 m
Summary In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change t...
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
Written By: Pedro Almodóvar
- 2004
- NC-17
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 46 m
- 2004
- NC-17
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 46 m
Bad Education
7.7
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Summary In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change t...
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
Written By: Pedro Almodóvar
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
81
82% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
15% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
81
82% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
15% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
With Bad Education, the great Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career.
From the Hitchcockian opening credits to the final frame, Almodovar has Hitch on his mind.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 57 User Ratings
7.7
81% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
16% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 57 User Ratings
7.7
81% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
16% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Este trabajo de Almodóvar podría ser el primero en el que la mujer no es la columna vertebral de la trama. El director manchego no se tocó el corazón al poner sobre la mesa el tema de los abusos de la Iglesia Católica, con unos personajes reunidos en circunstancias poco agradables. Aquellos que sean sensibles con ése tema, o el de la ****, mejor que busquen otro titulo.
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It's the director's most complexly ordered film to date - a labyrinth of ids, egos and alter egos waiting around blind corners - and may be the movies' most deliriously inventive narrative spiral since "Adaptation."
In this cross between film noir and melodrama, there's lust, need, camp and betrayal.
A big change of pace for the bad-boy Spanish director. Like his other work, it's kinky and proudly gay, but this time it's not a comedy. It's a serious neo-film-noir, and a pretty darn good one at that.
Begins as comedy, morphs into drama and only belatedly introduces the noir requisites of subterfuge, cunning and death--none of which, by that time, is necessary or even welcome. There is a great deal of life in this movie, and also promise, but its creepy ending betrays its sincere and painful core.
Such garbage that taking a shower at the Bates Motel is a more appealing alternative.
I finally saw this film but only after watching Almodovar's more recent "The Skin I Live In," which for me was a far superior movie--one of the best of 2011. However, even second-tier Almodovar is a heightened and idiosyncratic pleasure and is far better than most films made today. And "Bad Education"--with its signature blend of sex, camp, melodrama, and noir--is most definitely and unmistakably Almodovar. This film also features superb music by Alberto Iglesias (who deserves to win an Oscar someday) and impressive acting--the actors incl. Gael Garcia Bernal really throw themselves into their roles.
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It's a good story it got me guessing the entire movie, but it's always the same thing with Almodovar a **** or a lesbian drama and lots of sex and naked people, sometimes it's just too much maybe a scene to set up the idea or the mood of movie. And personally I hate actors faking a foreign accent, yo don't need Gael to perform that character when you have so many real Spanish actors.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company
Canal+ España,
El Deseo,
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA),
Preparatory Action of the European Union,
Televisión Española (TVE)
Release Date Nov 19, 2004
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating NC-17
Awards
European Film Awards
• 7 Nominations
Goya Awards
• 4 Nominations
Premios ACE
• 4 Nominations
