Bad Education (2004)

Original title

La mala educación

Directed by

Pedro Almodóvar

Genre

drama film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NC-17

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 1,076 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two childhood friends and former lovers reunite as adults. They become entangled in a stylized murder mystery involving their shared past at a Catholic school.

stylizeddarkmelancholictensemetaunsettlingeroticgripping

What happens

Bad Education (Spanish: La mala educación, also meaning 'bad manners') is a 2004 Spanish neo-noir psychological melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar and Francisco Boira, the film focuses on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery. The metafictional film uses a deeply-nested narrative plot structure to explore themes of transsexuality, drug use, rape, and sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The film was released on 19 March 2004 in Spain by Warner Sogefilms. Its subsequent festival run included screenings at Cannes, New York, Moscow, and Toronto. The film received critical acclaim, and was seen as a return to Almodovar's dark stage, placing it alongside films such as Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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