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BAFTA Awards 2005
Nominee BAFTA Film Award | Best Film not in the English Language Agustín Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar |
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2005
Nominee Movies for Grownups Award | Best Screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar |
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2005
Nominee Silver Condor | Best Foreign Film, Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera en Habla Hispana) Pedro Almodóvar Spain. |
Awards Circuit Community Awards 2004
Nominee ACCA | Best Foreign Language Film |
Butaca Awards 2004
Nominee Butaca | Best Catalan Film Actor (Millor actor català de cinema) Lluís Homar |
Chlotrudis Awards 2005
Winner Chlotrudis Award | Best Actor Gael García Bernal |
Nominee Chlotrudis Award | Best Movie |
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2005
Nominee CEC Award | Best Actor (Mejor Actor) Gael García Bernal |
Best Editing (Mejor Montaje) José Salcedo | |
Best Score (Mejor Música) Alberto Iglesias |
César Awards, France 2005
Nominee César | Best European Union Film (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne) Pedro Almodóvar |
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2005
Nominee DFWFCA Award | Best Director Pedro Almodóvar |
Best Foreign Language Film |
Directors Guild of Great Britain 2005
Nominee DGGB Award | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Foreign Language Film Pedro Almodóvar |
European Film Awards 2004
Nominee Audience Award | Best European Director Pedro Almodóvar |
Best European Actor Fele Martínez | |
Nominee European Film Award | European Director Pedro Almodóvar |
European Screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar | |
European Cinematographer José Luis Alcaine | |
European Composer Alberto Iglesias For Te doy mis ojos | |
European Film Agustín Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar |
Film Independent Spirit Awards 2005
Nominee Independent Spirit Award | Best Foreign Film Pedro Almodóvar Spain. |
Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival 2004
Winner Jury Award | Best Actor Gael García Bernal Fele Martínez |
GLAAD Media Awards 2005
Winner GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding Film - Limited Release |
Glitter Awards 2005
Winner Glitter Award | Best Picture |
Best Actor Gael García Bernal | |
Best Feature - Foreign Film Festival |
Gold Derby Awards 2005
Nominee Gold Derby Award | Foreign Language Film |
Goya Awards 2005
Nominee Goya | Best Film (Mejor Película) |
Best Director (Mejor Director) Pedro Almodóvar | |
Best Production Design (Mejor Dirección Artística) Antxón Gómez | |
Best Production Manager (Mejor Dirección de Producción) Esther García |
Iberoamerican Short Film Competition 2005
Winner 'La Navaja de Buñuel' Award | Pedro Almodóvar |
International Cinephile Society Awards 2005
Nominee ICS Award | Best Film Not in the English Language |
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) 2005
Nominee INOCA | Best Non-English Language Film Pedro Almodóvar Spain |
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2005
Winner Silver Ribbon | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) Pedro Almodóvar |
London Critics Circle Film Awards 2005
Nominee ALFS Award | Foreign Language Film of the Year |
National Board of Review, USA 2004
Winner NBR Award | Top Foreign Films |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2004
Winner NYFCC Award | Best Foreign Language Film Spain. |
New York Film Critics, Online 2004
Winner NYFCO Award | Top Films of the Year |
Online Film & Television Association 2005
Nominee OFTA Film Award | Best Foreign Language Film |
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Polish Film Awards 2005
Nominee Eagle | Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski) Pedro Almodóvar |
Premios ACE 2005
Nominee Premio ACE | Cinema - Best Film |
Cinema - Best Actor Fele Martínez | |
Cinema - Best Supporting Actor Daniel Giménez Cacho | |
Cinema - Best Director Pedro Almodóvar |
Satellite Awards 2005
Nominee Golden Satellite Award | Best Motion Picture, Foreign Film Spain. |
SESC Film Festival, Brazil 2005
Winner Audience Award | Best Foreign Actor (Melhor Ator Estrangeiro) Gael García Bernal For Diarios de motocicleta |
Winner Critics Award | Best Foreign Actor (Melhor Ator Estrangeiro) Gael García Bernal For Diarios de motocicleta |
Spanish Actors Union 2005
Winner Award of the Spanish Actors Union | Film: Performance in a Minor Role, Male (Reparto Cine - Categoría Masculina) Javier Cámara |
Nominee Award of the Spanish Actors Union | Film: Lead Performance, Male (Protagonista Cine - Categoría Masculina) Gael García Bernal |
Spanish Music Awards 2005
Nominee Music Award | Best Score (Mejor Álbum de Banda Sonora de Obra Cinematográfica) Alberto Iglesias |
Valdivia International Film Festival 2004
Winner Best Actor | Gael García Bernal |
World Soundtrack Awards 2004
Nominee World Soundtrack Award | Soundtrack Composer of the Year Alberto Iglesias |
Yoga Awards 2005
Winner Yoga Award | Worst Spanish Actress Gael García Bernal |
Metrics
Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists
Record | Rank | Amount |
---|---|---|
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 6,001-6,100) | 6,057 | $5,211,842 |
All Time International Box Office (Rank 2,101-2,200) | 2,118 | $35,100,000 |
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 3,101-3,200) | 3,124 | $40,311,842 |
All Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 401-500) | 478 | $5,211,842 |
Movie Details
Production Budget: | $5,000,000 |
Domestic Releases: | November 19th, 2004 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics, released as Bad Education |
MPAA Rating: | NC-17 for a scene of explicit sexual content |
Franchise: | Viva Pedro Box |
Comparisons: | Create your own comparison chart… |
Keywords: | Foreign Language |
Source: | Original Screenplay |
Genre: | Drama |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Historical Fiction |
Production Countries: | Spain |
Ranking on other Records and Milestones
Record | Rank | Amount | Chart Date | Days In Release |
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Theater Average 9th Weekend | 74 | $6,281 | Jan 14, 2005 | 59 |
Theater Average 5th Weekend | 55 | $12,816 | Dec 17, 2004 | 31 |
Theater Average 4th Weekend | 16 | $27,005 | Dec 10, 2004 | 24 |
Theater Average 3rd Weekend | 33 | $29,619 | Dec 3, 2004 | 17 |
Theater Average 2nd Weekend | 38 | $46,182 | Nov 26, 2004 | 10 |
Top 2004 Theater Average | 8 | $49,123 | Nov 19, 2004 | 3 |
So there's 153 words right there, and my guess is, you're thinking the hell with it, just tell us what it's about and if it's any good. Your instincts are sound. Pedro Almodovar's new movie is like an ingenious toy that is a joy to behold, until you take it apart to see what makes it work, and then it never works again. While you're watching it, you don't realize how confused you are, because it either makes sense from moment to moment or, when it doesn't, you're distracted by the sex. Life is like that.
The story, which I will not describe, involves a young movie director named Enrique (Fele Martinez) who is visited one day by Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal). Ignacio has written a story he wants Enrique to read. Enrique would ordinarily not be interested, but he learns that his visitor is the Ignacio – the boy who was his first adolescent love, back in school, and that the story is set in their school days and involves Ignacio being sexually abused by a priest at the school. Indeed, he permitted the abuse in order to get Enrique out of some trouble: 'I sold myself for the first time that night in the sacristy.'
That is all of the story you will hear from me, although to fan your interest, I will note that Gael Garcia Bernal, an actor who is turning out to be as versatile as Johnny Depp, portrays a drag queen in the movie, and does it so well that if he had played Hephaistion, Alexander would have stayed at home in Macedonia, and they could have opened an antique shop, antiquities being dirt cheap at the time.
Almodovar loves melodrama. So do I. 'Lurid' for me is usually a word of praise. The film within the film allows Almodovar to show transgressive sexual behavior at a time during Franco's fascist regime in Spain when it was illegal and so twice as exciting. There is enough sex in the movie to earn it an NC-17 rating, although not enough to make it even distantly pornographic. You see hands and heads moving, and it's up to you to figure out why.
Sex is a given in an Almodovar movie, anyway. It's what his characters do. His movies are never about sex but about consequences and emotions. In 'Bad Education,' he uses straight and gay (and for that matter, transvestite and transsexual) as categories which the 'real' characters and the 'fictional' characters use as roles, disguises, strategies, deceptions or simply as a way to make a living. There's no doubt in my mind that Almodovar screened Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' before making the movie and was fascinated by the idea of a man asking a woman to pretend to be the woman he loves, without knowing she actually is the woman he loves. When she's not playing that woman, she's giving a performance -- in his life, although it works the other way around in hers.
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In Almodovar's story, the Hitchcockian identity puzzle is even more labyrinthine, because the past depicted in Ignacio's screenplay is not quite the past either Ignacio or Enrique remembers, and, for that matter, although Enrique loved Ignacio only 15 years ago, he doesn't think Ignacio looks much like Ignacio anymore. 'Zahara,' the drag queen, begins to take on a separate identity of his/her own, and then the guilty priest turns up with his own version of events.
Almodovar wants to intrigue and entertain us, and he certainly does, proving along the way that Gael Garcia Bernal has the same kind of screen presence that Antonio Banderas brought to Almodovar's earlier movies. Watch karate kid full movie. For that matter, as Zahara, he also has the kind of presence that Carmen Maura brought.
Whether Almodovar has a message I am not quite sure. The movie is not an attack on sexually abusive priests, nor does it have a statement to make about homosexuality, which for Almodovar is no more of a topic than heterosexuality is for Clint Eastwood. I think it's really more about erotic role-playing: About the roles we play, the roles other people play, and the roles we imagine them playing and they imagine us playing. If Almodovar is right, some of our most exciting sexual experiences take place entirely within the minds of other people.
Pedro Almodóvar's noir-ish comedy-romance-Catholic school pedophilia drama Bad Education benefits greatly from the haunting and achingly beautiful score from longtime collaborator Alberto Iglesias. A somber blend of classical, choral, and Hitchcock-era Bernard Herrmann, the Spanish composer's reverent compositions both aggravate and diffuse Almodóvar's controversial images, bringing an elegance to the film's darker moments and a somber beauty to its sweeter ones -- Iglesias builds a surprisingly secular sounding piano-led collage around Rossini's Kyrie. Like his flamenco-infused score for the director's award-winning Talk to Her, Bad Education is as jarring, enlightening, romantic, and sinister as the film itself, resulting in one of the year's finest moments in film music.
Title/Composer | Performer | Time | ||
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La Mala Educación (Bad Education), film score | ||||
1 | 1:33 | |||
2 | 2:45 | |||
La Mala Educación (Bad Education), film score | ||||
3 | 1:13 | |||
Petite messe solennelle, for soloists, 2 pianos, harmonium & choir | ||||
4 | 2:43 | |||
La Mala Educación (Bad Education), film score | ||||
5 | 2:26 | |||
6 | 2:13 | |||
7 | 2:52 | |||
La Mala Educación (Bad Education), film score | ||||
8 | 2:16 | |||
9 | 2:10 | |||
10 | 1:06 | |||
11 | 2:22 | |||
12 | 2:21 | |||
13 | 2:16 | |||
14 | 2:25 | |||
15 | 3:12 | |||
16 | 1:59 | |||
17 | 1:46 | |||
18 | 0:53 | |||
19 | 6:08 | |||
20 | 0:33 | |||
21 | feat: Sara Montiel | 2:49 | ||
La Mala Educación (Bad Education), film score | ||||
22 | 1:48 | |||
23 | 2:47 | |||
24 | Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer | feat: Pedro Martinez | 3:27 | |
La Mala Educación (Bad Education), film score | ||||
25 | 1:41 | |||
26 | 1:30 |