Gael García Bernal

Fele Martínez

Daniel Giménez Cacho

Lluís Homar

Francisco Maestre

Francisco Boira

Juan Fernández

Nacho Pérez

Raúl García Forneiro

Javier Cámara

Alberto Ferreiro

Petra Martínez

Sandra

Roberto Hoyas

Agustín Almodóvar

Robert Forcadell

Luis Lobos Negros

Pol Monen

Sara Montiel

Pau Poch

Leonor Watling

José María Yázpik

José Luis Alcaine

Alberto Iglesias

Pedro Almodóvar

José Salcedo

Miguel Rejas

Esther García

Joserra Cadiñanos

Paco Delgado

Adolfo Bellido

Suzanne Stokes-Munton

Karol Tornaria

Toni Novella

Manuel Laguna

María Elena Pérez

Jorge Dorado

Ainara Gamero

Vicent Gaya

Carolina López

Peter Owen

David Martínez

Antxón Gómez

Alicia Fdez. Alberdi

Rosa Castillón

Pepito Juez

Caroline Turner

Iván Mayoral

Patricia Guadaño

Víctor Molero

Juan Casado

Diego Garrido

Angie Paúl

Jessica Williams

Jorge Calvo

Sara Alavés

Joxean Goya

Fernando Beltrán

Diego García

Nike Alonso

Joaquín Manchado

Rubén Sanz

Montse Ribé

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Pilar Revuelta

Rosa Ortiz

Ana Lozano

José Antonio Bermúdez

Manuel Corrales

Jaime Fernández-Cid Buscató

Drama

Crime

La mala educación

El Deseo

Spain

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This film treads the fine line between providing an entertaining and sexy piece of cinema with the identification of the serious issues of sexual abuse committed if not always by the clergy, then certainly under their auspices, in Franco's Spain. The story centres around aspiring actor "Angel" (Gael Garciá Bernal) who turns up, unannounced, at the door of his former schoolfriend. This man "Enrique" (Fele Martinez) has gone on to become a successful film director and, perhaps optimistically, "Angel" hopes that the unfinished manuscript he has brought might turn out to be his ticket to success. It transpires that these men have not seen each other since school (some 16 years earlier) and that this document is semi-autobiographical - it takes both back to their childhood where, under the supervision of "Fr. Manolo" (Daniel Giménez Cacho) they attended a catholic school where they had sexual encounters with each other and with others with varying degrees willingness. The story is dark, certainly, but here is plenty of humour and shagging as the story unfolds. We are deliberately left to judge the extent to which "Angel" is being truthful, fanciful or just plain enthusiastic, and we are also offered a fairly unique take on how vengeance might be applied. The narrative is complex, the timelines and characters shift making it quite a thought provoking film to both watch and begin to understand. Well worth it, though!

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Bad Education

Official Australian Trailer