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.
If Bad Education hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
What ties these together is guilt, figuring out who you are, and shame. They share the same lens on men and women navigating expectations, corrupt institutions, and family wounds passed down. Same energy: cold and detached, tense, slow burn, and methodical.
What ties these together is guilt and loss of innocence. The world both films live in revolves around corrupt institutions, religion and faith, and family wounds passed down. The feel is the same: tense, cold and detached, methodical, and slow burn.
What ties these together is guilt, loss of innocence, and figuring out who you are. Both circle the same ground: corrupt institutions and family wounds passed down. Both move the same way too, tense, cold and detached, methodical, and escalating.
