Bad Education (La Mala Educación) (Original Soundtrack) [Soundtrack]

Alberto Iglesias (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 16, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0006A9GNQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,255 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Titulos de Cabecera

2. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas)

3. Cine Olimpo

4. Kyrie

5. Viaje A Galicia

6. Noche Oscura

7. Cuore Matto

8. Plegaria Atendida

9. Por Mi Grandisima Culpa

10. Los Cocodrilos Hambrientos

11. Carta Del Mas Alla (Hommage a Elgar)

12. La Piscina

13. Escena Familiar

14. Foulard de Seda

15. Noir

16. Juan y El Sr. Berenguer

17. El Cine Como Espejo

18. Saxo + Cuarteto

19. Puerta Final

20. Exotica

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Starving Crocodiles..., November 16, 2004

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Mario A. San Juan "Stoned Immaculate" (Downey, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Education (La Mala Educación) (Original Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

The Starving Crocodiles

Almodovar's latest movie is undoubtedly his best, and a very inventive film-noir that absorbs and electrifies you from the very beginning. Alberto Iglesias' score serves "as a cradle where the movie rests" as the auteur himself said.

La Mala Educacion (Bad Education) is one of -if not- the best soundtrack composed this year, and its style is absolutely magnificent. Following the film-noir trend, Iglesias' score is a mixture of tunes a la Herrman ("Juan y el Sr. Berenguer", "Por mi grandisima culpa", "Escena Familiar"), poignant waltzes ("Foulard en seda", "La Carta", "Valsetto"), and vocalized cues that reflect the theme of the movie, and illustrate it fittingly ("Kyrie", "La piscina", "El cine como espejo"). "Cine Olympo", an exquisite theme for the movie-within-the-movie manifests itself disguisedly many times, in variations, as Iglesias' has done in previous scores where a parallel story is narrated - The Flower of my Secret, Live Flesh, Talk to Her, and All About my Mother- however the best track in the score is the "Overture". Other superb tracks are "Carta del mas alla", "Plato", and "Adagietto"... melodies that crave lust, but "Puerta Final" -the MAIN theme- is absolutely grand; probably the best potpourri of songs written in the last decade, that will grab you by the horns from the moment it opens to the last saxophone refrain, in an orgasm of eight minutes that you will want to experience over and over again.

The soundtrack also consists of key songs that in one way or another relate to the main characters and the story: "Maniqui Parisien", "Cuore Matto", "Moon River" (a very avant-garde arrangement), and "Jardinero".

Alberto Iglesias has composed a score so dark, rich, hunting, powerful, and mysterious... that proves to be irresistible.

Experience the Bad Education!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesante trabajo de Alberto Iglesias, July 27, 2011

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Manuel Carranza C "Hamelin" (Lima, PERU) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Education (La Mala Educación) (Original Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

Este trabajo del compositor de cine Alberto Iglesias para la película "La Mala Educación" del cineasta español Pedro Almodovar es realmente interesante. La película, cuyo motivo es una relación complicada de varios personajes en un mundo envuelto en la homoxesualidad, es motivo para intercalar música original excelentemente escrita para las cuerdas que nos trae a reminiscencia motivos oscuros del otrora compositor Bernard Herrmann hasta inclusiones de temas populares cantados por la gran Sara Montiel y el cantante Little Boy. Tambien podemos apreciar dos versiones muy hermosas del niño tiple Pedro José Sanchez Martinez, dueño de una voz realmente bellísima.
Música seleccionada inteligentemente para este crudo film.
Alberto Iglesia es realmente uno de los mejores exponentes de la música para el sétimo arte en España.

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the film, November 20, 2004

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Ming Liu (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Education (La Mala Educación) (Original Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

Alberto Iglesias did it again, a wonderful soundtrack!

His last collaboration with Pedro Almodovar, "Talk to her", is one of the best scores I've heard in recent years. In that movie, the scenes of the country villa, accompanying with the touching song of "Cucurrucucu Paloma" by Caetano Veloso, easily became one of the most beautiful five minuets I ever had in a theatre.

Before I went to see "Bad education", I can't help wondering, Could I have another enjoyable moment like "Cucurrucucu Paloma"? Luckily, I did have one, sort of. The Spanish rendition of "Moon River" is such a beautiful and haunting piece. But unluckily, the way the music delivered in the film is so disturbing. It started as a beautiful and innocent singing by a boy standing by the river while ended up with an innuendo of the ugly fact of sexual violations. However, if you didn't see the movie, the "moon river" will be a pure pleasant enjoyment.

Compared to the slightly weak movie, the music itself is powerful and flawless. From the beginning to the end, it doesn't have a single dull moment. In a word, buy this awesome CD!