Almodovar Season: Bad Education (15)
The Phoenix invites you to their summer season of Almodovar classics, celebrating the legendary director?s colourful tales of melodrama and metafiction in all their vibrant glory.
Film director Enrique (Fele Martinez) is one day visited by an old school friend, Ignacio/Angel (Gael Garcia Bernal), who has brought along a manuscript he wishes to star in. The script details the true story of their childhood romance and the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of their Catholic priest. What unravels from this unexpected encounter is a tale of guilt, blackmail and betrayal as the characters? true intentions are exposed.
Almodovar constructs scenes within scenes and reflects on the practices of performance and direction, a metafictional mode he explores as early as Law of Desire (1987), and as recently as Pain and Glory (2019). As a noir-inspired psychological thriller, Bad Education has its viewers leaning closely in, wondering what the next pan out will reveal, and always unsuspecting of how the story will transpire.
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