Bad Education (2004)

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Rating: NC-17

Release Date: Nov 19, 2004

Running Time: 109 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Spanish

Country Of Origin: Spain

starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Boira, Francisco Maestre, Juan Fernandez, Nacho Perez, Raul Garcia Forneiro

director: Pedro Almodovar

Bad Education (Trailer)

Bad Education

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 60's. 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.

PETER TRAVERS - November 16, 2004

Pedro Almodovar doesn't just make movies. Almodovar is the movies. He revels in everything forbidden and forgiving that can transform life into art. Bad Education, coming on the heels of the Spanish filmmaker's Oscar-winning Talk to Her and All About My Mother, is a rapturous masterwork. This story of two priest-abused boys who become lost men is also Almodovar's most personal film to date -- raw with his own feelings about sex, sin, the Catholic Church and the healing power of cinema. In one…