A priest playing the organ in the choir asks for her identity, and she confesses to have been a pupil at that school and that he (the priest) was in love with her. ![]() ![]() The origins of “Bad Education” go back to Almodovar’s “Law of Desire.” In that 1986 picture, the transsexual Tina (played by Carmen Maura) goes into the school’s church, where he had studied as a boy. Though drawing on personal experience, Almodovar insisted that “Bad Education” is not completely autobiographical. As expected, “Bad Education” was not as commercially successful as the prize-winning, “Talk to Her” or “All About My Mother, but it’s a more ambitious film, bringing together strands of Almodovar’s gay films of the 1980s with those of his more intimate and introspective melodramas of the 1990s. “Bad Education” is harsher than Almodovar’s previous works, the more accessible and enjoyable, “All About My Mother” and “Talk to Her.” However, occupying a significant place in his already rich oeuvre, “Bad Education” ranks as one of Almodovar’s strongest films. ![]() Past and present collide in complex and unexpected ways in this dark, personal meditation about the dual power of love, to liberate and to enslave, to inspire and to destroy.
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