The life of a high school teacher in Texas begins to unravel after her affair with a student comes to an end.
Release Date: 2013
Not Yet Rated |1 hr 15 min
Plot SummaryThe life of a high school teacher in Texas begins to unravel after her affair with a student comes to an end.
Cast: Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain, Jennifer Prediger, Julie Dell Phillips, Jonny Mars, Chris Doubek, Matthew Genitempo, Cody Haltom
Director: Hannah Fidell
Genres: Drama
Keywords: Brooding, Moving, Mother, Love, Growing up, 2010s, Intense, Forbidden love
Lindsay Burdge
Will Brittain
Jennifer Prediger
Julie Dell PhillipsThe 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. show more
What makes the film work is that this potentially lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity and probing psychological seriousness. show more
Burdge is left to do much of the heavy lifting in terms of inviting the audience into her protagonist’s shaky state, and her performance boasts a remarkable emotional precision throughout — if ever there’s a reason to seek this one out, it would be for her. show more
