Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006)
The story of a young, attractive art teacher having an affair with a 15 year old boy is already material for a dramatic film, but adding a secondary plot about a manipulative older “jealous, longing (?)” teacher using the affair for blackmail and to create a scandal is very bold — wonderful performances but understandably too taboo for a mainstream audience — there is no way this film could have had box office success in the US.
Glass’ score is much too prominent here — it takes over and sounds much like the score of The Thin Blue Line — not impressed at all by this score — if anything, it detracts from the film.
(DVD)
Recommend: for its interesting narrative — a double plot 1) teacher having an affair with a 15-year old, 2) other teacher blackmailing for her own disturbed pleasure. / and for the acting.