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A Teacher
2013 75m Not Rated
Drama
,
Romance
4.8
34%
21%
46%
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A high school teacher in Austin, Texas takes sexual advantage over one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the details of the relationship are exposed.
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Directed By
Hannah Fidell
Written By
Hannah Fidell
Studio
Oscilloscope
Cast of A Teacher
Lindsay Burdge
Diana Watts
Will Brittain
Eric Tull
Jennifer Prediger
Sophia
Jonny Mars
Hunter Watts
Julie Dell Phillips
Jessica
Chris Doubek
Eric's father
Michael J. Wilson
Sophia's brother
Hannah Dannelly
Eric's Date to the Dance
A Teacher Reviews
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Fidell's mature style and Burdge's lack of guile are engaging. As the film's emotions grow darker, a lack of ideas comes through.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Ms. Fidell ... has a fine eye but not the makings of a feature-length movie here and, it quickly becomes clear, isn't interested in this relationship or the moral, ethical and legal issues it raises.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Fidell's use of choppy, Wong Kar Wai-style slow motion seems incongruous at first, but eventually becomes an effective expression of Burdge's mental state-time sputtering like a bad motor.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Glimpses of the relationship's dynamics can't overcome the missing sense of how these two first connected, an increasingly problematic void at the movie's core.
Observer
Matthew Kassel
If the title is vague, so is the script, which, at times seems to mistake ambiguity for complexity.
RogerEbert.com
Marsha McCreadie
"A Teacher" will leave you feeling drained, even exhausted. That's about right for a movie about obsession, one with no resolution except waiting for the other thud to drop.
Film School Rejects
Kate Erbland
Fidell still surprises with the direction of her film, and as honest as it is, as true as it feels, A Teacher still packs a punch.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
We're only allowed an insufficient glimpse of the anxiousness and curiosity that drive these creatures, a tactic which feels suspiciously like hesitance masquerading as enigma.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The movie is lifeless for its first hour, and the last-minute outpourings are too little, too late.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
An evocative but ultimately hollow indie drama.
NPR
Tomas Hachard
The diminishing returns in part are due to Burdge's performance, which too often settles for the same look of fraught anxiety. But they also result from Fidell's decision to pare her film down to the barest elements.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
This nonjudgmental, opaque drama conjures up the emotional landscape of its troubled titular character but intentionally provides little insight into her thought process.
Village Voice
Andrew Schenker
Fidell seems ill-prepared to steer the film into strictly psychological territory, resulting in a project that loses its fraught sense of control at the same moment as its embattled protagonist.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
The script offers neither verbal illuminations nor practical insights, neither psychology nor morality, and the plot is little more than the reportorial backstory to a tabloid headline.
Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
A short, sharp burst of concentrated character-based storytelling that builds considerable emotional intensity.
Film.com
William Goss
Burdge's performance boasts a remarkable emotional precision throughout - if ever there's a reason to seek this one out, it would be for her.
Variety
Peter Debruge
As first features go, A Teacher demonstrates a willingness to provoke, but doesn't seem to understand the minimum expectations most audiences place on films in terms of both incident and characterization.
Willamette Week
Michael Nordine
Mood divorced from meaning.
The Dissolve
Mike D'Angelo
A Teacher feels a bit like watching some fool cross a busy freeway on foot over and over again for an hour and change. There's little to do but await the inevitable splat.
Hollywood & Fine
Marshall Fine
A strong dramatic vision and the intelligence to carry it out with minimal resources..the kind of movie we need more of: thought-provoking, unshowy but deeply affecting.
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