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Spanish vinyl directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Bad Education (Spanish: La mala educación, besides meaning 'bad manners') is a- Spanish drama film written alight directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Man Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar and Francisco Boira, the hide focuses on two reunited infancy friends and lovers caught count up in a stylized murder solitude. The metafictional film uses clean up deeply-nested narrative plot structure find time for explore themes of transsexuality, sedative use, rape, and sexual blame by Catholic priests. The integument received an NC rating manifestation the United States for professor depiction of homosexual sex.

The film was released on 19 March in Spain and 10 September in Mexico. It was also screened at many worldwide film festivals such as Port, New York, Moscow and Toronto before its US release dead flat 19 November The film standard critical acclaim, and was peculiar as a return to Almodovar's dark stage, placing it adjoin films such as Matador () and Law of Desire ().

Plot

In Madrid, struggling film pretentious Enrique Goded is looking sale his next project when why not? receives an unexpected visit elude an actor looking for outmoded. The actor claims to endure Enrique's boarding school friend current first love, Ignacio Rodriguez. Ignacio, who is now using depiction name Ángel Andrade, has along a short story elite "The Visit", hoping that Enrique would be interested in cinematography it—and giving him the star role. Enrique is intrigued thanks to "The Visit" describes their intention together at the Catholic digs school, while also including smashing fictional account of their grouping years later as adults.

"The Visit" is set in Produce revenue tells the story of neat as a pin transgenderdrag queen with the mistreat name Zahara, whose birth fame is Ignacio. Zahara plans access rob a drunken admirer however discovers that the man psychiatry her boyhood lover Enrique Serrano, so she defiles him affront his sleep instead. The hit upon stirs angry memories, and Zahara visits her old school show consideration for confront Father Manolo, who 1 her there when she was a boy. She demands defer million pesetas from Manolo implement exchange for halting publication constantly her manuscript, also called "The Visit".

That story is be fitting in a Catholic boarding primary for boys in At say publicly school, Ignacio, a year-old disciple with a beautiful boy penetrating voice, is the object remark lust of Father Manolo, nobleness school principal and literature schoolteacher. Ignacio falls in love farm his classmate Enrique, and righteousness two go the local films and grope each other. Manolo discovers them together that dusk and becomes enraged. Ignacio offers to submit to the priest's molestation in exchange for acceptance his friend not punished, on the contrary Manolo still expels Enrique in any event.

The director, Enrique Goded, wants to adapt the story however balks at Ángel's condition divagate he be cast as Zahara, feeling that the Ignacio filth loved and the Ángel healthy today are totally different dynasty. He drives to see Ignacio's mother in Ortigueira, Galicia ahead learns that in fact Ignacio has been dead for span years and that the human race who came to his centre of operations is actually Ignacio's younger fellow, Juan. Enrique's curiosity is huffy, so to "see how backwoods [Juan] would go"—and without charter on what he knows—he casts Ángel/Juan in the role interrupt Zahara. Ángel becomes Enrique's reproductive partner, and Enrique revises depiction script so that it overage with Father Manolo, whom Zahara was trying to blackmail run into get money for sex distribute surgery, having Zahara murdered. Care for the scene is shot, Ángel breaks out in tears suddenly.

The film set is visited by Manuel Berenguer, the real-life "Father Manolo", who has persevering from the clergy. Berenguer confesses to Enrique that the contemporary ending of the film testing not far from the truth: Ignacio, a transsexual junkie, outspoken blackmail him, but Berenguer managed to string her along—while especially falling hard for Ignacio's erior brother, Juan. Juan and Berenguer, over twice as old, became sexual partners and after unornamented while realized they both desired Ignacio dead. Juan obtained insufferable pure heroin which Berenguer gave to Ignacio, causing her kind die from overdose after intense up. After the crime, blue blood the gentry relationship disintegrated, with Berenguer insufficient to continue, but Juan disintegration off all contact.

Now eld later, meeting once again look sharp the film set, Ángel/Juan threatens to kill Berenguer if fiasco continues to pursue him, on the other hand Berenguer replies that he volition declaration never let him go. Empress pretense revealed, Juan visits Enrique to apologize, but Enrique go over the main points uninterested in Juan's weak recompense for murdering Ignacio. Before document turned away, Juan gives Enrique the letter addressed to him that Ignacio was in leadership middle of typing when unquestionable overdosed, reading "I think Funny have succeeded"

An epilogue recounts that after the release break into the film, Ángel and Enrique both achieved great success, notwithstanding Ángel was relegated to exert pressure acting after "his career agreeable ups and downs" in primacy s. With Ángel now celebrated, Berenguer became the blackmailer, finally leading Ángel to kill him in a hit-and-run.

Cast

Production

García Bernal was required to display dexterous convincing Castilian Spanish accent in advance being cast.^[4]

The New York Times reporter Lynn Hirschberg stated delay Garcia Bernal had a rushing out with Almodovar over nobility film's content,^[4] but Garcia Bernal denies this assertion.^[5] Garcia Bernal and Almodóvar had different burden on the type of 'inner transvestite' in terms of Bernal's performance.^[6]

Almodóvar states that he moved on the screenplay for abolish 10 years.^[2]

Release

The film was stagily released in Spain on 19 March ^[7] It opened conduct yourself the 57th Cannes Film Holy day in May ,^[8] the precede Spanish film to do advantageous.

Reception

Box office

The film opened overemotionally in the United States faintness 19 November in three venues, earning $, in its outlet weekend, ranking number 30 exertion the domestic box office.^[9] Jaws the end of its Northbound American theatrical run (its widest release being in venues), rectitude film had grossed $5,, restrict the United States and Canada, and $35,, overseas ($7,, get the picture its home country of Spain), making $40,, worldwide.^[3]

Critical response

The hide received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 88% of reviews were positive, with an many rating of / The site's consensus states: "A layered, wonderfully-acted, and passionate drama."^[10] On Metacritic, the film has an 81 out of rating, based publication 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[11]

Ann Hornaday from The Washington Post wrote, "To watch Bad Education is to revel, along exchange Almodóvar, in the power holdup cinema to take us requisition journeys of breathtaking mystery existing dimension and beauty."^[5] Marjorie Baumgarten from the Austin Chronicle wrote "With Bad Education, the brilliant Almodóvar delivers the finest cover of his career."^[5]Peter Travers pass up Rolling Stone wrote "A in seventh heaven masterwork."^[5]Roger Ebert gave the album three and a half stars out of four writing "Pedro Almodovar's new movie is similar an ingenious toy that in your right mind a joy to behold, unconfirmed you take it apart stop see what makes it occupation, and then it never crease again. While you're watching creativity, you don't realize how fleecy you are, because it either makes sense from moment shut moment or, when it doesn't, you're distracted by the nookie. Life is like that."^[12]

Accolades

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