2004 ‘La mala educación’ Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Gael García Bernal Fele Martínez Daniel Giménez Cacho Lluís Homar Francisco Maestre Francisco Boira Nacho Pérez Raúl García Forneiro Javier Cámara Alberto Ferreiro Petra Martínez Sandra Roberto Hoyas Agustín Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Robert Forcadell Luis Lobos Negros Pol Monen Sara Montiel Pau Poch Juan Fernández Leonor Watling José María Yázpik
La Mala Educación, 毁灭性教育, 坏教欲, Halb kasvatus, Má Educação, 나쁜 교육, 不良教育, Bad Education - Schlechte Erziehung, (15) La Mala Educación, La Mauvaise Éducation, Dårlige Dannelse
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During the period of Francoist Spain, in which the country was totalitarian, and the regime favoured a very conservative Roman Catholicism approach, a particular process which came into place between 1936 and beyond - and until 1975, the time of Franco's death, Spain (in general) considered lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders transgressive, wrong and against moral & ethical codes. It was also during this time that Pedro Almodóvar, the director of Bad Education lived as an adolescent.
He himself was sent to live at a religious boarding school during this time; and of course, as the director so often does, he fuses reality and fiction allowing his own confessions (like one would confess of course at church) to filter through during…
i will never meet anyone half as beautiful as gael garcia bernal's ass and that is tragic
Highkey one of the best Almodovar's. I still have a b*ner from the scene with Gael Garcia Bernal in the pool.
tw: rape
Almodovar's eye for color (always very clean colors, bold, bright, never smudged, never ragged, never the scummy colors of my world) and skill at crafting a visual story, at finding angles that completely alter what we're seeing from mundane to larger than life, I can't deny it. But I can't say I've yet seen a film of his that didn't involve rape for some reason, and not a single depiction of it has ever been anything but problematic. In this film, a trans woman casually sexually molests her unconscious ex-boyfriend, whom she's robbing. You're gonna want to argue that he had consented before he passed out, but that's just not how consent works. You might argue that she's…
when you watch almodovar’s catalog, you realize how he loves
-men bodies
-red tones
-plot twists
-an obsessive/passionate character
"I'm a hedonist."
"What's that?"
"People who like having fun. I read it in an encyclopedia."
One of my favorite things about sitting down with an Almodóvar film is that his works always seem like those of someone who has something meaningful to say. Better yet, he always manages to do so with eloquence, biting insights, and exceptional dramatic structuring. La Mala Educación is a prime example of these elements. Regarded as one of his darkest films, it tells a thorny tale that expertly genre-shifts, entrancing you as it pulls you deeper and deeper into its tragicomic orbit. More than anything else, it's considerably impressive how well Almodóvar pulls off a yarn with a good deal of grim subject matter…
