Bad Education

4.50
    Bad Education
    2004

    Synopsis

    Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

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    Cast

    • Gael García BernalÁngel/Juan/Zahara
    • Fele MartínezEnrique Goded
    • Daniel Giménez CachoPadre Manolo
    • Lluís HomarSr. Berenguer
    • Francisco MaestrePadre José
    • Francisco BoiraIgnacio
    • Juan FernándezMartín
    • Nacho PérezYoung Ignacio
    • Raúl García ForneiroYoung Enrique
    • Javier CámaraPaca/Paquito

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Rolling Stone

      A rapturous masterwork.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      It's a film noir that grows more potent as its secrets are revealed.
    • 90

      The New Yorker

      Complex and devious beyond easy recounting, Bad Education is about the fallout from the ending of a "pure" love between boys, consecrated in an Almodóvaran temple--a movie theatre.
    • 90

      Variety

      Superbly orchestrated, visually impressive.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      In accounting for Almodóvar's identity as an artist and a man, Bad Education comes together like a bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date.
    • 75

      Christian Science Monitor

      Spain's most important living filmmaker isn't at his very best in this complicated tale, but it raises still-timely questions well worth pondering.
    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      May be at once too gimmicky and too sincere. But it still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodóvar’s work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      Ultimately, Bad Education must be considered to be a minor effort from a major director.

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