Notes on a Scandal
DramaRomance
7.09/10
|GB
|en
|92 min
Release Date: 2006-12-25
Overview - A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Production Companies
Fox Searchlight PicturesDNA FilmsUK Film CouncilBBC FilmScott Rudin ProductionsRobert Fox Productions
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badelf
6/10
This is one of those films like a great pasta dish where everything is just right but somehow you still don't feel the restaurant is justified charging $21.95 for a plate of noodles and tomato sauce. The direction is top notch, Cate Blanchett as Sheba Hart is great and Bill Nighy supporting just works. As much as I usually adore Judi Dench's acting, I thought she was a little too one-dimensional...
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Filipe Manuel Neto
9/10
**Lust, loneliness and bitterness in an engaging film with two great actresses.** I was very impressed with this film, which combines two huge and very talented actresses and a script full of tension and very well developed. It's not something new or original, and there are a lot of relatively tense films that are set in a school environment. I can quote one that I saw recently, and that I reme...
