La mala educación - Bad education
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | La mala educación - Bad education |
| Original title | La mala educación |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| script | Pedro Almodovar |
| production | Agustín Almodovar |
| music | Alberto Iglesias |
| camera | José Luis Alcaine |
| cut | José Salcedo |
| occupation | |
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La mala educación is a feature film by the director Pedro Almodóvar , shot in Spain in 2004 .
action
In 1980, 27-year-old Enrique Goded became a respected director after three successful film productions. He lives in Madrid and is looking for a new film when a bearded man rings the doorbell who pretends to be his childhood friend Ignacio. This "Ignacio" is an actor and looking for work. He wants to be called Ángel and has also brought Enrique a story. Enrique does not recognize his school friend, whom he has not seen for sixteen years, and sends him away, but promises to read the story.
The story, titled The Visit , is about Enrique and Ignacio's childhood in a strictly Catholic boarding school. The priest Padre Manolo loves Ignacio, who is the soloist of the school choir. Ignacio, however, is in love with Enrique and has his first sexual experience with him in the cinema. When Padre Manolo discovers the relationship between the two boys, Ignacio gives himself up to the priest so that Enrique is not expelled from school. He will anyway.
A few years after this incident, Enrique and Ignacio meet again but do not recognize each other. Enrique is now, albeit unhappy, married and a father. Ignacio is a transvestite and calls himself Zahara. Zahara has sex with Enrique without Enrique, completely drunk, noticing. Of course, Zahara recognized Enrique and left him a letter. Zahara visits the place where he spent his childhood in the monastery school. There he tries to blackmail Padre Manolo with the very story The Visit . It later turns out that this storyline obviously did not actually happen, but instead is just fictional content of the narrative.
Enrique is fascinated by the story and immediately begins to rewrite it into a script. During a visit to Ignacio's mother in Galicia , however, he finds out that the man who introduced himself to him as "Ignacio" and wanted to be called Ángel is in fact Ignacio's brother Juan and that Ignacio has been dead for several years. Nevertheless, despite initial resistance, he begins to shoot the film with "Ignacio" as Zahara. Enrique and Ángel become a couple, although Enrique now knows that Ángel is not Ignacio but Juan. However, Enrique changed the end of the story in the script: Zahara is killed in the film by Padre Manolo and his brutal colleague Padre José by turning his neck. When Juan played this scene, he bursts into tears.
Then a Señor Berenguer, a publisher's editor, contacts Enrique, who read about the film project in the newspaper. He is Padre Manolo, now married and resigned from church and school service. Enrique learns from him that Ignacio / Zahara really tried to blackmail Señor Berenguer alias Padre Manolo in order to raise money for his heroin addiction and for a sex reassignment operation . When they meet, Berenguer meets Juan and falls in love with him. Berenguer and Juan sum up the plan to kill Ignacio / Zahara. They pass him a letter of particularly pure heroin, with which Ignacio / Zahara unintentionally shoots himself the golden shot while he is writing a triumphant letter to Enrique : He collapses, his head hits the keys of the typewriter. Enrique is no longer interested in Juan's flimsy attempts at justification. As he parted, Juan hands him the letter he had begun, while Ignacio died while it was being written.
dramaturgy
The film derives a large part of its effect from its nested structure: three time levels - the protagonists' childhood past in the convent school (around 1964), around 13 years later the blackmailing of Padre Manolo / Señor Berenguer by Ignacio and his murder by Juan and Señor Berenguer (1977 ) and three years later the film presence of Enrique's search for material, love for Juan and shooting (1980) - are intertwined, levels of which it is never completely clear to what extent they are cinematic reality or “film in a film”. This is made possible by the introduction of the autobiographical story by Ignacio The Visit , which Enrique, the director, immediately translates into film images when reading it, which the viewer can see.
The structure of La mala educación is further complicated by the fact that Zahara, Juan's transsexual brother, is played in Enrique's film adaptation of Juan, so that two people merge in his portrayal, while Padre Manolo and Señor Berenguer, one and the same person in different phases of life, is played by two different actors. The latter also applies to Enrique, who is called Goded in the film reality, but Serrano in the film and is played by another actor (Alberto Ferreiro).
Zahara dies twice in the film: once murdered by Padre Manolo and his brutal friar (film in the film), once by "Golden Shot", directed by Señor Berenguer and Juan (film reality). Author of the story The visit is Ignacio, but Juan claims to be its author. This story does not end with Zahara's death, which Enrique only inserts into his script when he has learned that Ignacio is dead - only to then learn the background through Berenguer's confession, which belies his film version.
backgrounds
The director and screenwriter of the film, Pedro Almodóvar , grew up as a student in a monastery school. He was also a celebrated director in the 1980s. He worked on the screenplay for the film for ten years. The film cost around nine million euros.
The end of the narrative The visit consists of two scenes that Almodóvar staged but did not use in the film (bonus material on the DVD): 1. Zahara is missing from Enrique and Zahara's friend Paquito in the café he was going to. 2. Together with two police officers, the two go to Padre Manolo and the priest who helped him murder Ignacio to find out where Ignacio is and to bring back the stolen liturgical utensils.
For the film, the native Mexican Gael García Bernal had to learn a Spanish accent and typical Spanish gestures; in the film he made a full playback of the song Quizás, quizás, quizás .
Reviews
In the Spiegel the film was described as virtuoso . With his incomparably melancholy elegance he tells of desire and being desired as a matter of life and death.
As a barbed masterpiece , erotic , sensual and merciless , the film in the spotlight: film was praised. The film is painfully beautiful and a typical film by Almodóvar.
film-dienst wrote about La Mala Educación : "Pedro Almodóvar tells a dark story inspired by film noir in pictures of breathtaking beauty , whereby the femme fatale is a young man who ruthlessly uses his erotic power of seduction."
Awards
The film was at the 2005 BAFTA Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film nomination, but had to The Motorcycle Diaries beaten where Gael García Bernal also starred. In addition to being nominated at numerous film festivals, La Mala Educacíon was also nominated for a César , an Independent Spirit Award and a Satellite Award .
The film was nominated twice for audience awards in the categories of Best Actor ( Fele Martínez ) and Best Director at the European Film Awards 2004. It received nominations in the categories of Best Film , Best Director , Best Cinematography , Best Screenplay and Best Music . The film was also only nominated for the Goyas 2005 ; In the categories of Best Film , Best Director and Best Producer , the film Alejandro Amenábar's Oscar- winning The Sea in Me had to be defeated, in the category of Best Equipment the film Tiovivo c. 1950 .
Web links
- Bad Education - Bad Education in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film (English, French, Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for La mala educación - Bad education . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 595 K).
- ↑ Age rating for La mala educación - Bad education . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ La mala educación - Bad education. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .