La mala educación

2004 [SPANISH]

Action / Crime / Drama

29
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 147 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 66359 66.4K

sexual identity friendship individual spain sexual abuse drug abuse

Please enable your VPΝ when downloading torrents

If you torrent without a VPΝ, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action!

Get Surf VPΝ

Plot summary

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Director

Pedro Almodóvar Photo
Pedro Almodóvar

Top cast

Gael García Bernal Photo
Gael García Bernal as Ángel / Juan / Zahara
Agustín Almodóvar Photo
Agustín Almodóvar as Limpiador Piscina
Daniel Giménez Cacho Photo
Daniel Giménez Cacho as Padre Manolo
Pedro Almodóvar Photo
Pedro Almodóvar as Limpiador Piscina
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
965.97 MB
1280*660
Spanish 2.0
TV-MA
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 5
1.94 GB
1584*816
Spanish 5.1
TV-MA
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

This film treads the fine line between providing

This film treads the fine line between providing an entertaining and sexy piece of cinema with the identification of the serious issues of sexual abuse committed if not always by the clergy, then certainly under their auspices, in Franco's Spain. The story centres around aspiring actor "Angel" (Gael Garciá Bernal) who turns up, unannounced, at the door of his former schoolfriend. This man "Enrique" (Fele Martinez) has gone on to become a successful film director and, perhaps optimistically, "Angel" hopes that the unfinished manuscript he has brought might turn out to be his ticket to success. It transpires that these men have not seen each other since school (some 16 years earlier) and that this document is semi-autobiographical - it takes both back to their childhood where, under the supervision of "Fr. Manolo" (Daniel Giménez Cacho) they attended a catholic school where they had sexual encounters with each other and with others with varying degrees willingness. The story is dark, certainly, but here is plenty of humour and shagging as the story unfolds. We are deliberately left to judge the extent to which "Angel" is being truthful, fanciful or just plain enthusiastic, and we are also offered a fairly unique take on how vengeance might be applied. The narrative is complex, the timelines and characters shift making it quite a thought provoking film to both watch and begin to understand. Well worth it, though!
Reviewed by Galina_movie_fan 7 / 10

"Sara Is Beautiful"

"Bad Education" is a remarkable film - drama/ thriller/neo-noir with many surprises, with an interesting structure: it takes place in the present and tells the story about the past, presents the story as a film within the film, then mixes past and present together in a twisted turn. It's been said a lot about Gael García Bernal's performance (or should I say, three performances) - he is a triple star of the film, and he looks great as a woman (transsexual/drag queen) and a man. He is a talented actor, too. There is a lot to admire in perhaps, the most personal Almodovar's film but it felt strangely remote and cold to me. The one moment that brought some memories back and I felt that I was connected with the film was a scene where two young characters, Ignacio and Enrique went to see the movie "Esa mujer" (1969) with one of the most stunning Spanish movie stars and singers, Sara Montiel. The boy Ignacio whispered in awe, "Sara is beautiful." I had the pleasure to see Sara in two films, La Reina del chantecler, (1962) and Mi último tango (1960)... aka My Last Tango and I can confirm that she could make any movie worth of watching.
Reviewed by

Read more IMDb reviews

No comments yet

Be the first to leave a comment