Bad Education (2004)

NC-17

2004

106 mins

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
88%
86%
Drama

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

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. 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. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, All About My Mother) and starring Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, Babel).

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Bad Education (2004) | Ratings & Reviews

88_%149 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
86_%46,298 reviews
Audience score rating

"Almodvar is in imperious form ... and it's a joy to witness the superbly staged scenes here."

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BBC

"When the film gets in a spin, Bernal is its compass."

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Sight & Sound

"One of uncensored emotion and pure energy."

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Slant Magazine

"A delirious, headlong immersion and re-invention of a style."

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The New York Times

"Superbly orchestrated, visually impressive..."

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Variety

"Almodovar wants to intrigue and entertain us, and he certainly does..."

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Roger Ebert

"Intoxicating and flawed noir-melodrama."

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San Francisco Chronicle

"A marvelously dirty, ultimately heartbroken movie about, among other things, the instability of identities."

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Boston Globe

"To watch Bad Education is to revel, along with Almodovar, in the power of cinema to take us on journeys of breathtaking mystery and dimension and beauty."

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