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Mixing reality and fiction, past and present, a series of “flashbacks” reveal that Enrique and Ignacio had been boyfriends (Alberto Ferreiro as Enrique Nacho Pérez as Ignacio) while attending Catholic boarding school in the mid-1960s. Set in 1980, right around the time Almodóvar himself began writing and directing feature films, Bad Education is centered on Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez), a young moviemaker in dire need of inspiration for his next project.Ĭoincidentally, that’s when Enrique becomes reacquainted with a long-lost schoolfriend, the attractive, mysterious Ignacio – now known as Ángel (Gael García Bernal) – who presents him with a semiautobiographical short story, “The Visit,” hoping it will become the basis for a screenplay.
And though far superior to that year’s five Best Picture Academy Award nominees, it failed to receive a single Oscar nod.
In fact, Bad Education is such quality – and provocative – cinema that it was all but completely bypassed during the 2004–05 awards season in the United States, managing to top only the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Foreign Language Film category. In the 2004 psychological/mystery comedy-drama Bad Education / La mala educación, screenwriter-director Pedro Almodóvar subverts the conventions of the classical film noir genre while rendering one of his most accomplished, most complex, and most daring efforts.Īiding and abetting Almodóvar in the creation of this inflammatory work are the film’s two male leads, Mexican import Gael García Bernal (sporting a Castilian Spanish accent) and Fele Martínez its capable supporting cast, particularly Spanish-born Mexican star Daniel Giménez Cacho and its behind-the-scenes talent, among them cinematographer José Luis Alcaine and composer Alberto Iglesias.
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