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| | Emanuel Levy : Review - Bad Education |
 | | Commercially, Bad Education may not be as accessible and successful as the prize-winning films, Talk to Her or All About My Mother, but it's a more ambitious and mature film, one that brings together strands of Almodovar's gay films of the 1980s with those of his intimate relationship stories of the 1990s. |
 | | Upon meeting a priest playing the organ in the choir, he asks for her identity, and she confesses to have been a pupil at the school and that he (the priest) was in love with her. |
 | | The novel aspect, though, is that in noir, the femme fatale is a woman, whereas in Bad Education it's a man, or rather an enfant terrible (Bernal), a man who combines in his sultry and soulless bits of roles played by Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, and Jean Simmons, to mention a few femme fatales. |
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