Bad Education (2004)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
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That there’s something creepy at the heart of “Skin” should surprise no one who’s seen Almodóvar’s “Matador” or “Talk to Her” or “Bad Education” or “Live Flesh,” which is also based on a novel and which, I think, this new film most resembles.
And being an Almodóvar work, it's also the sort of film that will very likely alienate and even infuriate some viewers -- though probably not to the extent that Bad Education did in 2004.
Parents need to know that this boundary-pushing drama/thriller from celebrated Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar (and starring Antonio Banderas ) is arguably his most perverse, controversial film to date, even more so than 2004's Bad Education .
But it's never been more apt than in the chilling "Skin," which has as much in common with classic horror movies (most obviously, "Frankenstein") as with the Alfred Hitchcock films that seem to have inspired Almodovar's recent films like "Bad Education" and "Broken Embraces."
It’s no accident that beloved superhero alums keep landing roles in the latest batch of streaming content, from Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) in the new HBO film “Bad Education” to Chris Evans (Captain America) in the new Apple TV+ miniseries “Defending Jacob.”
Similar feelings were aroused after additional viewings of LIVE FLESH, TALK TO HER and BAD EDUCATION.
After telling stories of men in his last few films ("Bad Education," "Talk to Her"), Almodóvar here revels in the world of women, returning to the territory of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "All About My Mother."
"Volver" represents a radical shift from the dark catharsis of "Bad Education," a story of corrosive lust and cruelty.
Despite all the death, this is lighter fare than most movies by Pedro Almodóvar (“Bad Education” and “All About My Mother”).