Bad Education (Spanish, DVD)

First screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's powerful and passionate semi-autobiographical melodrama follows the intertwining stories of two boys, Enrique (Fele Martínez) and Ignacio (Gael García Bernal), who fall in love at an abusive Catholic school and are parted by a jealous paedophile priest. Sixteen years later, Enrique, now a successful filmmaker, is casting about for an idea for a new film when a young cross-dressing actor, claiming to be Ignacio but known as 'Angel', approaches him with a short story based on their schooldays together. Enrique decides to use the story, and casts Angel in the film's lead role, despite his discovery that Angel is not in fact Ignacio, who died three years earlier shortly after completing the story, but his younger brother. Enrique's film also includes scenes in which the grown-up Ignacio tracks down the Catholic priest who abused them as boys, and these scenes soon become mirrored by real-life events. Almodóvar moves away from his trademark quirky comedy with this dark and brooding drama, using a complex 'film-within-a-film' structure to create a noir-like sense of mystery and blurred identity, and to explore the relationship between fantasy and reality.

General

Studio:	20th Century Fox Home Ent.
Release date:	December 2004
Movie released:	2004
Actors:	Fele Martínez • Gael García Bernal • Daniel Giménez Cacho • Lluís Homar • Javier Cámara • Petra Martínez • Nacho Perez • Raul Garcia Forneiro • Francisco Boira • Juan Fernandez • Alberto Ferreiro • Roberto Hoyas • Francisco Maestre • Leonor Watling • Sarita Montiel
Contributors:	Pedro Almodóvar • Agustín Almodóvar • Alberto Iglesias
Directors:	Pedro Almodóvar
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Video format:	Widescreen 2.35:1
Languages:	Spanish
Subtitles:	English
Age restriction:	15
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Art Films DVD > Feature Film DVD > Promotions > Deals
LSN:	XMM-5FY-7PE-2
Barcode:	5060002833179

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• Other Documentary: Television spots. Costume design featurette

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