It would ruin the experience to reveal too much more. Add to the mix Ignacio’s brother Juan and all the lives become entangled. After escaping the endless unwonted advances of Father Manolo, Ignacio becomes Zahara a saucy drag queen. “Enrique and Ignacio were childhood lovers and neither recovered from the pain of separation when Enrique was kicked out of the school for bad behavior. There is nothing this man won’t do to seduce young men, keep them from telling about it afterwards, and protect his past later on. The villain at the core of each of the stories is Father Manolo (Daniel Giménez Cacho). “The film toggles back and forth among several stories showing us the adult lives of Enrique (Fele Martínez), a successful film director, and Ignacio (Gael García Bernal), an aspiring writer their childhood memories and the fictionalization of their childhood experience which Ignacio tells Enrique he has written. A brilliant film on many levels, it tends to lack one important thing: a soul. By the end, I did not feel that I really knew any of them well, and what little I knew I did not particularly like. The characters, however, seem to be more or less in the film to facilitate the plot line. The plot is filled with surprises it twists, it turns. In BAD EDUCATION we see Almodóvar fine-tuning his craft once again, this time turning to suspense and a bit of film-noir. Original language title: La Mala educaciónīruce says: “Because Pedro Almodóvar is so proficient and so accomplished I tend to perhaps expect too much from him. Director: Fele Martínez | Gabriel García Bernal | Lluís Homar | Pedro Almodóvar