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Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

7,1 /10 (998 Votes)
2006 EN 92 min

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.

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Release date

25/12/2006

Votes

998

Popularity

4.8

One woman's mistake is another's opportunity.

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

92 min

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$49,814,392

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badelf

2012-08-04

⭐ 6

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 in this role. But given her choice, she executed the role with the usual Dench precision. This is a twisted love triangle story with very real characters. If you're the kind that picks up the dirt…

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2023-02-26

⭐ 9

**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 remembered while watching this film: “The Children’s Hour”. Alright, the movie is about a hypothetical lesbian relationship between teachers, it's a different kind of scandal than what we have in this mov…

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