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.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award16 wins & 42 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Even though Bad Education ultimately seems to escape the director's control, there is no small amount of enjoyment in getting lost in its sexual-philosophical house of mirrors.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
4 Feb 2005
fresh:
Taken at face value, Bad Education is about molestation, but from a wider perspective, it's about love, loss of innocence and the desperate quest for redemption.
– Bill Muller,
Arizona Republic,
10 Feb 2005
rotten:
Simple melodrama, a not-that-puzzling puzzle of a film noir.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb 2005
fresh:
It still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodovar's work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul.
– Logan Hill,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
27 Feb 2005
fresh:
In accounting for Almodovar's identity as an artist and a man, Bad Education comes together like a bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date.