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It still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodóvar's work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul.
Simple melodrama, a not-that-puzzling puzzle of a film noir.
Taken at face value, Bad Education is about molestation, but from a wider perspective, it's about love, loss of innocence and the desperate quest for redemption.
Even though Bad Education ultimately seems to escape the director's control, there is no small amount of enjoyment in getting lost in its sexual-philosophical house of mirrors.
Reality, fantasy and cinema interweave with such grace and power that it's often difficult to separate one from the other, which is, of course, the point.
This is a disturbing film that challenges the viewer's comfort. It also challenges you to keep up as it jumps stylistically from comedy to romance to drama to a film noir thriller.
Tragic story of church's betrayal; adults only.
A dazzling autobiographical blend of Almodovar's career, childhood, and adoration & admiration for the cinema.
In accounting for Almodóvar's identity as an artist and a man, Bad Education comes together like a bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date.
It's impossible to watch Pedro Almodóvar's latest film and not be affected, in part because Almodóvar addresses the concerns of our times without making a 'message' movie.
...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities.
An original story told by one of the best contemporary filmmakers, Bad Education is a mesmerizing movie experience.
I wonder if Gael García Bernal is paying his electric bill beneath that blob of squares covering his head, which seems to be undulating up and down between a man's legs.
Almodovar's transitions in tone and mood are so slyly executed it's only afterward that the viewer realizes how much ground this ambitious, brain-teasing movie has covered.
Almodovar is that rarest of filmmakers -- one whose work becomes more daring with each film.
It's really a greatest hits compilation of Almodovar's own work - all the standout tracks are here, but with none of the context and soul afforded by those connective numbers.
It's a fascinating film that goes off in so many directions that the viewer may have a hard time getting a handle on it.
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