Bad Education

Theater date: 2004-03-19

Blu-ray release date: 2005-04-12

Rated: N/A

7.35 (IMDB)

Genre: DramaCrime

Language: es

Status: Released

Length: 1h 45min

Languages:

Latin
Español

Description:

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.

Top 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

Juan Fernández

As Martín

Nacho Pérez

As Young Ignacio

Raúl García Forneiro

As Young Enrique

Javier Cámara

As Paca / Paquito

Alberto Ferreiro

As Enrique Serrano

Petra Martínez

As Madre

Sandra

As Transformista

Roberto Hoyas

As Camarero

Agustín Almodóvar

As Limpiador Piscina (uncredited)

Robert Forcadell

As Man in Public (uncredited)

Luis Lobos Negros

As Motero Ochentero (uncredited)

Pol Monen

As Niño (uncredited)

Sara Montiel

As Soledad (archive footage) (uncredited)

Pau Poch

As Niño (uncredited)

Leonor Watling

As Mónica (uncredited)

José María Yázpik

As Extra (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Pedro Almodóvar

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Agustín Almodóvar

Producer

José Luis Alcaine

Director of Photography

Alberto Iglesias

Original Music Composer

José Salcedo

Editor

Esther García

Executive Producer

Joserra Cadiñanos

Casting

Paco Delgado

Costume Design

Miguel Rejas

Sound Designer

Angie Paúl

Production Assistant

Antxón Gómez

Art Direction, Production Design

Víctor Molero

Set Decoration

Pepito Juez

Hairstylist

Vicent Gaya

Additional Hairstylist

Rosa Castillón

Additional Hairstylist

Juan Casado

Additional Hairstylist

Carolina López

Assistant Makeup Artist

Peter Owen

Wigmaker

María Elena Pérez

Additional Hairstylist

Suzanne Stokes-Munton

Wigmaker

Karol Tornaria

Assistant Makeup Artist, Makeup & Hair Assistant

Caroline Turner

Wigmaker

Jessica Williams

Wigmaker

Toni Novella

Production Manager

Alicia Fdez. Alberdi

Assistant Director Trainee

Adolfo Bellido

Third Assistant Director

Jorge Dorado

Second Assistant Director

Ainara Gamero

Second Assistant Director

Patricia Guadaño

Third Assistant Director

David Martínez

Assistant Director

Diego Garrido

Assistant Sound Editor

Manuel Laguna

Assistant Sound Editor

Iván Mayoral

ADR Recordist

Joxean Goya

Set Dresser

Diego García

Stunts

Sara Alavés

Visual Effects Producer

Nike Alonso

Visual Effects Producer

Jorge Calvo

Visual Effects Supervisor

Rubén Sanz

Visual Effects Producer

Fernando Beltrán

Gaffer

Joaquín Manchado

Camera Operator

Montse Ribé

Makeup Effects Designer

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Costume Design

Pilar Revuelta

Set Decoration

Ana Lozano

Makeup Artist

José Antonio Bermúdez

Sound Mixer

Manuel Corrales

Sound Effects

Jaime Fernández-Cid Buscató

Boom Operator

Rosa Ortiz

Sound Editor

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (7/10)

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!

2023-09-04