Bad Education (2004)

Highly Recommended

Spain

Feature Film

Original Title: La mala education

Writer/Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Cinematographer: José Luis Alcaine

Composer: Alberto Iglesias

Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Juan Fernández, Nacho Pérez, Raúl García Forneiro

A promising young film-maker, adapting a semi-autobiographical story written by his first love, who was sexually abused by a priest whilst at boarding school, begins to question the identity and motives of his collaborator, as secrets and lies gradually come to light, in Almodóvar’s labyrinthinely plotted, strikingly shot, and beautifully acted Hitchcockian noir. Iain.Stott