La mala educación
Pedro Almodóvar
The 1980s. Enrique Goded, a famous filmmaker with creator's block, is visited one evening by Ignacio, who he hasn't seen for 16 years. Ignacio now wants to be known as Àngel and offers him a script which, curiously, tells a story from an episode in Enrique's childhood. “The Visit” takes place in a religious school in the early 1960s.
With : Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Lluís Homar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Juan Fernández
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar
Image : José Luis Alcaine
Editing : José Salcedo
Sound : Miguel Rejas
Music : Alberto Iglesias
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar
Image : José Luis Alcaine
Editing : José Salcedo
Sound : Miguel Rejas
Music : Alberto Iglesias
Distribution: Pathé distribution
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International sales: Canal+ España, Deseo, El, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
www.pathefilms.com
International sales: Canal+ España, Deseo, El, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
This project, which was 30 years in the making, gave rise to Almodóvar's most complex, and perhaps most sombre, film. He wanted to compare the headiness of the Movida of the 1908s with the obscurantism and repression of the 60s. Jean-Marc Lalanne commented that Francoism is “(…) at the origin (of the existence of the hero, of the childhood of the filmmaker), there is therefore the feeling of being born at the wrong time, in a nightmarish world. And it is impossible to overcome this”. La mala educación (Bad Education) operates like a profession of faith and illustrates the pain at the source of Almodóvar's narratives. More than ever his films spring from shards of broken lives.