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Bad Education

La mala educación

2004

Pedro Almodóvar

Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Juan Fernández ...

6.1

40,880

Drama Bad Education tells the story of two friends – and first loves – and the sexual abuse they endure at a strict Salesian Catholic school. The complex narrative skilfully dramatizes how childhood events shape one’s adult life and relationships. In the eighties, young gay film director Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) is visited by his old school friend Ignacio Rodríguez (Gael García Bernal). Ignacio gives Enrique a short story to read; it ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"One of Almodovar's darkest films since the early days of 'Law of Desire' and 'Matador', and certainly one of his finest."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A dizzying and rapturous noir melodrama, a little like Hitchcock's Vertigo with layers of confusion and contradiction. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"Almodóvar is at his most breathtakingly complex and mature, and at his most pessimistic"	POS
United States	Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune	"If only Bad Education engaged the heart as much as the head, Almodovar's fractured tale might have risen above its alienating noir conventions. Puntuación: ★★½ (out of 4) "	NEU
United States	Scott Foundas LA Weekly	"It is Bernal himself who sticks in your head the most."	POS
United States	Ken Tucker New York Magazine	"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."	POS
Canada	Toronto Star	"An exercise in stylish, seductive and cinematically self-referential finesse. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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