Bad Education
La mala educación
2004, Film, 106 min, Crime, Drama, Spanish, Spain, MoviePedia score 77
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Cast
- Gael García Bernal as Zahara
- Fele Martínez as Enrique Goded
- Javier Cámara as Paquito
- Daniel Giménez Cacho as Padre Manolo
- Lluís Homar as Sr. Berenguer
- Francisco Maestre as Padre José
- Francisco Boira as Ignacio
- Juan Fernández Mejías as Martín
- Nacho Pérez as Ignacio
- Raúl García Forneiro as Enrique
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