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Bad Education (2004)
Celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar's latest is a classic film noir set in Madrid, 1960 - 1980. Two kids, Ignacio and Enrique, discover love, cinema and fear in a religious school. Father Manolo, the school principal and their literature teacher, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three characters meet twice again, at the end of the 70s and in the 80s. The re-encounter will mark the life and death of some of them. (read more)
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It is hard for Almodovar to exceed expectations, as he is always daring and creative in his films, and one expects them to be excellent.
This is no exception, as he takes on the Catholic Church, and by extension, the Franco regime. His selection of Gael Garcia Bernal (Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries) was brilliant. He...
(complete Bad Education review by B Movie Ben)
Bad Education Movie Review by Sheryl  (2/1/2005) |
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Gael, you are a bad, bad, boy. Thank you for allowing me to be a fly on your bad, bad wall.
I love Almodovar. As always, he plays with gender roles, sexuality, and the deep dark desires of us sordid human beasts, but does it with a color and an artist's benign touch. It's sort of like being picked up in Dorothy's tornado...
(complete Bad Education review by Sheryl)
| Bad Education Movie Review by Elizabeth (11/23/2004) |
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Like the betrayed lover in "Breathless," who styles himself after a tough-talking black and white film hero, the characters in "Bad Education" look to the fantasies offered in the movie theater and on the stage as their own patterns to follow. And like anyone enmeshed in the desperate cons of film noir, these characters...
(complete Bad Education review by Elizabeth)
"The character Father Manalo isn't a weapon thrown against the Catholic Church,
which has problems to solve, including priests' sexuality. If celibacy didn't exist, there wouldn't be so many cases of abuse" - Pedro Almodovar on his film "Bad Education"
The depiction of the abuse of power by Father Manalo on the two...
(complete Bad Education review by Luis Pedron)
| Bad Education Movie Review by Ms. V (2/21/2005) |
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Pedro Almodovar pulls off film noir here. I won't give the plot away, but it's certainly different from his previous films. I admit I like the "romanticized" version of the priest the best, he acted very well in this film.
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