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7.4When 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.
Cast
- Gael García Bernal as Ángel / Juan / Zahara
- Fele Martínez as Enrique Goded
- Daniel Giménez Cacho as Padre Manolo
- Lluís Homar as Sr. Berenguer
- Francisco Maestre as Padre José
- Francisco Boira as Ignacio
Themes
- sexual identity
- friendship
- spain
- sexual abuse
- drug abuse
- transvestism
- madrid, spain
- transsexuality
- boarding school
- screenplay
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
64,993 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
81/100
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award16 wins & 42 nominations total
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Key facts
- Spanish
- La mala educación
- Directed by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Written by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Produced by
- Agustín Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar
- Starring
- Gael García Bernal Fele Martínez Daniel Giménez Cacho Lluís Homar Francisco Boira Javier Cámara
- Cinematography
- José Luis Alcaine
- Edited by
- José Salcedo
- Music by
- Alberto Iglesias
- Production company
- El Deseo
- Distributed by
- Warner Sogefilms
- Release date
- 19 March 2004 ( 2004-03-19 )
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish Latin
- Budget
- $5 million
- Box office
- $40.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 855531
- Official website
- www.sonyclassics.com/badeducation
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- publication date
- 2004-03-19
- title
- La mala educación
- capital cost
- 5000000
- review score
- 81/100
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Bad Education (Spanish: La mala educación, also meaning 'bad manners') is a 2004 Spanish neo-noir psychological melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar and Francisco Boira, the film focuses on two reunited childhood friends and lovers caught up in a stylized murder mystery. The metafictional film uses a deeply-nested narrative plot structure to explore themes of transsexuality, drug use, rape, and sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
The film was released on 19 March 2004 in Spain by Warner Sogefilms. Its subsequent festival run included screenings at Cannes, New York, Moscow, and Toronto. The film received critical acclaim, and was seen as a return to Almodovar's dark stage, placing it alongside films such as Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987).