Bad Education
Alternative title: La mala educación

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

An examination of the lifelong impact of Franco-era religious schooling and abuse on two close friends.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education is a dazzlingly constructed gay film about desire, abuse, memory and filmmaking itself. Gael García Bernal gives a fearless performance in a story that keeps changing identities and perspectives, while Almodóvar turns painful material into a seductive, noir-inflected puzzle.

Bad Education

Alternative title: La mala educación

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

An examination of the lifelong impact of Franco-era religious schooling and abuse on two close friends.

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Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education is a dazzlingly constructed gay film about desire, abuse, memory and filmmaking itself. Gael García Bernal gives a fearless performance in a story that keeps changing identities and perspectives, while Almodóvar turns painful material into a seductive, noir-inflected puzzle.