
In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.
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| New York PostV.A. MusettoFrom the Hitchcockian opening credits to the final frame, Almodovar has Hitch on his mind. |
| Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)Randy ShulmanThe most brazenly, deliciously gay film Almodovar has ever made. |
| About.comRebecca MurrayAn original story told by one of the best contemporary filmmakers, Bad Education is a mesmerizing movie experience. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordAlmodovar's transitions in tone and mood are so slyly executed it's only afterward that the viewer realizes how much ground this ambitious, brain-teasing movie has covered. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThe result is one of Almodovar's darkest films since the early days of "Law of Desire" and "Matador," and certainly one of his finest. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyBad Education, in this light, is Almodovar's "8-1/2" or "Day for Night," a lens through which all of his movies appear as a seamless whole. It's not the story of his actual life but, more excitingly, the deft, witty, bittersweet story of the life of his art. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThis is a brilliantly structured hall of mirrors that wraps Catholicism and the movie industry into a tasty film noir. |
| PremiereGlenn KennyAlmodóvar has created a dense, audacious film in which layers of cinematic artifice lovingly camouflage (at least for a while) its characters’ dark, damaged heart. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenBad Education is a voluptuous experience that invites you to gorge on its beauty and vitality, although it has perhaps the darkest ending of any of the films by the Spanish writer and director. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitThe film's outlandishly involuted story fuses melodrama, romanticism and noir. |