BAD EDUCATION

Country: Spain
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Lead Actors: Gael Garcia, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez-Cacho
Running time: 109 min.
English Subtitles
Rating: Not Yet Rated

"It's a film noir that grows more potent as its secrets are revealed." - Entertainment Weekly

From Academy Award-winning director, Pedro Almodóvar (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, TALK TO HER) comes BAD EDUCATION, the opening film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

This film noir centres on two kids (Gael Garcia Bernal, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, Fele Martinez, TALK TO HER) and a priest (Daniel Gimenez Chacho, NICOTINA) whose lives intertwine in the early sixties. The three characters meet twice again, at the end of the seventies and then in the eighties.

Telling the story of these two friends and their nemesis, BAD EDUCATION skillfully dramatizes how childhood events shape one’s adult life and relationships. Almodóvar captures Spain’s massive political and social changes through subtle details, reminding us that his own emergence as a filmmaker is intimately linked to the nation’s post-Franco artistic and sexual liberation.

The crisp, colour-saturated cinematography is as sumptuous as we have come to expect from Almodóvar’s work, while his obsession with the cinema is evident in the many film references and in the vital role the movies play in the lives of the characters. Ultimately, BAD EDUCATION is another profound lesson in desire and duplicity by one of contemporary cinema’s masters.

"Bad 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." - The New York Times