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Bad education (La mala educación) - Francisco Boira, Javier Cámara, Gael García Bernal, Pedro Almodóvar

Threat advisory: High - High risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

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.

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film drama Catholic school drag queen rape abuse

Persons of interest

Fele Martínez .... Enrique Goded
Raúl García Forneiro .... Young Enrique
Francisco Boira .... Ignacio
Nacho Pérez .... Young Ignacio
Gael García Bernal .... Zahara
Daniel Giménez Cacho .... Father Manolo
Lluís Homar .... Señor Berenguer
Javier Cámara .... Paca/Paquito
Petra Martínez .... Mother
Juan Fernández .... Martín
Alberto Ferreiro .... Enrique Serrano
Roberto Hoyas .... Camarero
Francisco Maestre .... Padre José
Leonor Watling .... Mónica
Pedro Almodóvar .... Screenwriter
Pedro Almodóvar .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Bad education (La mala educación) official movie site
Bad education (La mala educación) film production notes
Bad education (La mala educación) QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Australian Film Critics Association Awards 2005: Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film (Pedro Almodóvar - Spain)
Bangkok International Film Festival 2005: Windows on the World
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2004: Nominated: Best Film not in the English Language
International Press Academy Golden Satellite Awards 2004: Nominated: Motion Picture - Foreign Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2004: Won: Best Foreign Film
São Paulo International Film Festival 2004: International perspective

NB: Latin and Spanish languages with English language subtitles
See also The choristers (Les choristes)
Studios and distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

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.