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The Kindergarten Teacher
Directed by
Nadav Lapid
Not Rated
2014
2h
Drama
6.6
77%
44%
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A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
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Cast of The Kindergarten Teacher
Sarit Larry
Nira
Avi Shnaidman
Yoav Pollak
Lior Raz
Nira's husband
Gilad ben David
The Poetry Teacher
Ester Rada
Miri
Guy Oren
Asi
Yehezkel Lazarov
Amnon Pollak
Dan Toren
Aharon Pollak
The Kindergarten Teacher Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
A perplexing but all-too-human psychological drama ...
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Israeli director Nadav Lapid uses a well-worn concept - a lonely little boy is taken under a teacher's wing - to create a slow, creepy movie.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
What is weird, and ultimately destructive, is the way that The Kindergarten Teacher conceptualizes its child prodigy.
New York Daily News
Katherine Pushkar
Slightly mesmerizing performances from Larry and young Shnaidman just manage to sustain interest in this quiet story. Even if it's going nowhere.
IndieWire
Boyd van Hoeij
While the basic setup of the drama would lead one to expect that the story will go into a kind of overblown substitute son/mother melodrama, Lapid has something else in mind entirely.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
The film's denouement is at once shocking and organic because it echoes a well-paced but nasty children's fable.
Tablet
J. Hoberman
The internationally acclaimed filmmaker's new 'The Kindergarten Teacher' takes Jewish insularity to terrific extremes.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Lapid, following his acclaimed 2014 hostage drama "Policeman," clearly has a lot on his mind here. But he tells his overlong story in such a diffuse, at times elliptical way that his reach exceeds its grasp.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
On an immediate level, the film is a commentary on what we do with other people's words when we quote them-and in so doing, deform them, customizing them to our own requirements.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A self-assured, remarkably powerful film from the Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid.
Variety
Jay Weissberg
Always engrossing but also perplexing and offering little deeper than the obvious, Teacher still reps a new development in a striking, idiosyncratic director.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
Writer-director Nadav Lapid not only makes this rich and rather strange tale convincing on screen, but he does so with the aesthetic prowess of a first-class auteur.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
As a dramatist Lapid can be too oblique for his own good, and his story runs off the rails in the last half-hour.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
You may be perplexed or shocked if you take it literally; thoughtful, if you consider it social criticism; or get carried away to consider it allegory. You won't forget it.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Is little Yoav a full-blown messiah in the making? Or just another clever little beaker of glossolalia? Lapid measures both options, risking obliqueness but providing clues and cues for uncommon contemplation amid rarified beauty.
SF Weekly
Joshua Rotter
Lapid's tense psychological drama leaves us with more questions than answers, but as with great poetry, or art in general, maybe everything doesn't have to be spelled out.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Nadav Lapid's astonishingly bold film about a gifted child and his effect on his teacher is a rewarding, unsettling and moving experience.
The Playlist
Nikola Grozdanovic
"The Kindergarten Teacher" is too lackadaisical to be as profound as it thinks it is.
Paste Magazine
Ross Bonaime
Lapid's skilled direction and Larry's fascinating performance allow us to find the true art in the unexpected, much like Nira does herself.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Both tantalizing and convincing.
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