Synopsis
In All About My Mother and Talk to Her, Pedro Almodóvar deepened
Hollywood’s screwball comedy tradition with unpredictable bursts of
violence, melodrama, and theatrical irony. Here, he performs the same
trick on film noir. In BAD EDUCATION, the hero-victim Ignacio (Gael Garcia
Bernal), like many recent Almodóvar protagonists, alters his destiny by
turning his experiences into a work of art.
His short story The Visit tells of
the revenge he dreams of taking against his femme fatale (a pedophile
priest!) and of his childhood love for a boy named Enrique. The Visit
comes into the hands of the grown-up Enrique (Fele Martínez), a successful
gay filmmaker who is tempted to rework his own erotic-romantic past with
Ignacio in both art and life. BAD EDUCATION reconfirms Pedro Almodóvar
as one of our greatest directors. –Larry Gross, Telluride Film Festival
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