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 the life and death of some of them.
Special Agent Matti
Wow. Bad education is a great education in paedophilia - aka man-boy love - not to mention sex, drag, Catholicism, sex, filmmaking, hustling, sex and sex. I was so moist that I nearly slid off the seat.
Gael García Bernal continues his all-round sexiness as a boy and as a girl. As a girl he's a fabulous bitch, as a boy he's a very... bad... boy...
Rowrrr.
The rest of the cast is good, too, especially the insufferable beautiful lead boy, Raúl García Forneiro as young Enrique: he's even prettier than Giuseppe Cristiano in I'm not scared. And the voice!
Meanwhile, Pedro Almodóvar has come up with a twisty tale of betrayal and deceit that will delight the most hardened art-house aficionado. It's a little long but Bad education is Spanish after all. Europeans haven't developed the same short span of attention that we Anglos have.
MA 15+ (Adult themes, medium level sex scenes, drug use)
104 minutes (1:44 hours)
Film: 24 March 2005
