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 Rating: - Notes on a scandalThe service from this seller was great, the movie itself, not so much. I guess I'm just not big on English films! Rating:  - Melodramatic, not a great film but fun to watchThis film was fun to watch but is so melodramatic and soap operaish I couldn't take it seriously. The situation (Cate Blachett having an affair with a student and being pursued by lesbian Judi Dench) is great material but what happened to British understatement? Instead, we get fights, tantrums, screaming matches, a dead cat, and mascara dripping down Blachett's face like a clown. The fights were worthy of Jerry Springer on a bad day. I thought soap suds would come of the DVD player after I've played it. Judi Dench and Cate Blachett are great, the dialogue is poignant (the quiet scenes are the best, i.e., Dench's speech about solitude). What a pity it was overshadowed by the loud historics demanded by the director/screenplay. The worst scene was when, after applying ghoulish black mascara, Cate Blachett blows up at Judi Dench after reading her diary and storms out into the crowd of reporters, screaming her head off. Then there's the scene where Blachett's husband discovers the affair and literally seems to be tearing his hair out. In another scene, the boy's mother comes into Blachett's house, and without a word, punches her! After awhile, I was too exhausted watching the historics of this film. Subtlety, anyone? This could have been a great film, if the filmmakers had trusted that the audience would have gotten the seriousness of the situation, without thrusting everything in our faces. Rating: - Taut, suspenseful and well doneCate Blanchett plays an art teacher (Sheba) who inexplicably has a dalliance with a 15-year old student. Older faculty member Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) becomes aware of the affair and uses it as implied blackmail material to maneuver a close relationship. Covett is an aging spinster, tormented by loneliness and carrying on an active interior life through her compulsive diary entries. When the affair is finally exposed, the consequences rip apart multiple relationships and set the stage for a disturbing pattern. Judi Dench gives an absolutely devastating performance as spinster Covett. Sans makeup and with vice-over narration, Covett is a character that repulses and fascinates, even evoking some sympathy in her desperate search for human relationships. Very good movie! Rating:  - Very disturbingI love Judi Dench, but need to stick to movies like "Cranford" when I want to see her, I guess. This movie is very disturbing. Only one person seems to have a bit of moral character and that person is Sheba's husband, who reacts with understandable and justifiable rage when he learns of Sheba's affair (not to mention the touching scenes of him with his and Sheba's Downs Syndrome son). I have learned my lesson about R rated movies. In this film, the gory details are graphically shown--sexual scenes between Sheba and a 15 year old boy, the same boy using aggressive, vile sexual language, a very violent scene where Sheba is beaten by another woman. We even get to see Sheba sitting on a toilet and then wiping her butt! Now what did that add to the story? It also appeared that Sheba's 13 or 14 year old daughter is sexually active. When Barbara comes over for brunch, the dad says to the daughter "he could have stayed" which implied that the boyfriend had spent the night. In another scene, Sheba pulls something up off the floor in her daughter's room and hands it to her daughter with a smile--I'm not certain, but were those boxer shorts? How I wish that we could have a smart, suspenseful thriller with great acting--and the acting is good in this movie--without feeling like you're in a cesspool with the characters. Rating: - Tightly WoundWith today's spate of teacher/student sex scandals, this one feeds the appetite to understand how these things happen. You'll hate Judy Dench, but her acting is top-notch. The plot has a nice twist, not well concealed. The 'romances,' both of them, are not especially believable. A freak show, really. But worth watching, and definitely compelling. Browse for similar items by category:
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