La Mala educación (Bad Education)

Years later, Enrique is a successful film director out of ideas.....Time shifts, fact and fiction collide as flashbacks within films within films bloom, and the mystery of the truth becomes more and more clouded..... ... Full Review

Lush, deceptive, elaborately calculated and heartfelt, Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education is a mystery and a pleasure, a combination made clear from its earliest moments, with its stylish credits, visual and aural echoes of Hitchcock, film noir references and lavish excess. ... Full Review

While Bad Education isn't perfect The intrigue of Bad Education lies in peeling back layer after layer of its elaborate construction; the film's a tangled, gender-bending film noir that could have easily disintegrated into a mess. ... Full Review

This film contains graphic sex scenes, disturbing themes and profanity.....Almodovar, like his on-screen alter ego, knows a decent story always trumps a sense of decency.....The director's naughty side emerges here.... ... Full Review

We don't want to know what happens to the characters that survive, rather, the best film noir makes us guess or imagine what might happen to them. It is these questions and the search for answers that gives "Bad Education" its best gotcha moments. ... Full Review

Films within films, references-a-go-go, sickness, women as actors... After Pedro Almod?var's Volver brought him back to maternal melodrama, this tragi-romantic meta-noir executes an about-swerve to the Spanish auteur's last-but-one, Bad Education. ... Full Article

The beauty of the South American landscape and of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien , Bad Education ) gives The Motorcycle Diaries a charisma that is decidedly apolitical. ... Full Article

Gael García Bernal has confirmed that he's going to become a dad for the first time next year. The Motorcycle Diaries and Bad Education actor and girlfriend Dolores Fonzi announced the pregnancy in a statement to the Associated Press yesterday:... ... Full Article

The following words from director Pedro Almódovar are taken from an 'auto-interview' in the Bad Education press book, which can be found on the DVD as an extra. ... Full Article

Hippies and the internet - they go together like peas and ferrets. In the run-up to the release of his newest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon , due September 25, Devendra Banhart has been leaking small bits of the... ... Full Article

Sound familiar? It should. It's the plot of Almodóvar's latest film, the Oscar-nominated Volver . The Spanish auteur has a thing for revisiting themes, as you'll quickly discover delving into the nine-disc Viva Pedro boxed set, a selection of his... ... Full Article