Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Country: GB/US
Technical: Technicolor 92m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Phil Davis, Michael Maloney
Synopsis:
A seasoned schoolteacher observes as a young novice colleague pursues an affair with a pupil, her own need for companionship overpowering any impulse to report her to the authorities.
Review:
An unlikely scenario, perhaps, given the ages of the participants, but not so much so as to preclude entertainment, and that is to be had in spades from the performances of the principals and Glass's uncannily powerful music. There are some deliciously waspish remarks from Dench's character, as well as ironies that rebound on her, but the final scene of her about to embark on another carnivorous relationship shows that she remains relatively intact from the experience, as well as using precisely the same bench as two of the participants in Scenes of Sexual Nature.
Country: GB/US
Technical: Technicolor 92m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Phil Davis, Michael Maloney
Synopsis:
A seasoned schoolteacher observes as a young novice colleague pursues an affair with a pupil, her own need for companionship overpowering any impulse to report her to the authorities.
Review:
An unlikely scenario, perhaps, given the ages of the participants, but not so much so as to preclude entertainment, and that is to be had in spades from the performances of the principals and Glass's uncannily powerful music. There are some deliciously waspish remarks from Dench's character, as well as ironies that rebound on her, but the final scene of her about to embark on another carnivorous relationship shows that she remains relatively intact from the experience, as well as using precisely the same bench as two of the participants in Scenes of Sexual Nature.
Country: GB/US
Technical: Technicolor 92m
Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Phil Davis, Michael Maloney
Synopsis:
A seasoned schoolteacher observes as a young novice colleague pursues an affair with a pupil, her own need for companionship overpowering any impulse to report her to the authorities.
Review:
An unlikely scenario, perhaps, given the ages of the participants, but not so much so as to preclude entertainment, and that is to be had in spades from the performances of the principals and Glass's uncannily powerful music. There are some deliciously waspish remarks from Dench's character, as well as ironies that rebound on her, but the final scene of her about to embark on another carnivorous relationship shows that she remains relatively intact from the experience, as well as using precisely the same bench as two of the participants in Scenes of Sexual Nature.