Barbara Covett (Judi Dench), a veteran teacher at St. George's, senses a kindred spirit in Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), the school's new art teacher. The charismatic younger woman draws Barbara, and the two become friends. Then she learns of Sheba's illicit affair with a teenage student and becomes the keeper of the explosive secret. Based on the novel ''What Was She Thinking?'... ' by Zo?« Heller.
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Notes on a Scandal A lonely schoolteacher becomes obsessed with a young colleague after uncovering her dangerous secret. Creepy thriller adapted from Zoe Heller's Booker Prize-nominated novel, starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett
Meet Single White Spinster. Barbara Covett (Dench) isn't just a fearsome, hatchet-faced, acid-tongued, twin-set wearing teacher. Notes On A Scandal confirms our worst suspicions about the ladies who made so many secondary school students' lives a misery: these sourpusses weren't just misunderstood, lonely older women. They were aged, Sapphic versions of Glenn Close's bunny-boiler in Fatal Attraction, and the last people you'd ...
Anyone who has ever willingly submitted to the dominance of a toxic friend (girls, you know who you are) will shiver in recognition at Judi Dench's portrayal of a wolf-in-confidante's clothing in Notes on a Scandal. Based on the sly, addictively creepy novel by Zo?? Heller, it's the story of Bathsheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), a pretty, upper-class art teacher in her late 30s who starts a new job at a working-class public school and soon finds herself squarely in the sights of two besotted suitors ??? a 15-year-old student named Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson) and a lonely, bitter history teacher named Barbara Covett (Dench).
Meet Single White Spinster. Barbara Covett (Dench) isn't just a fearsome, hatchet-faced, acid-tongued, twin-set wearing teacher. Notes On A Scandal confirms our worst suspicions about the ladies who made so many secondary school students' lives a misery: these sourpusses weren't just misunderstood, lonely older women. They were aged, Sapphic versions of Glenn Close's bunny-boiler in Fatal Attraction, and the last people you'd want to become obsessed with you, or to learn your deepest, darkest secret.
Sheba Hart (Blanchett) suffers both fates. While Barbara provides the notes, in her malicious, distorted yet scrupulously kept diary entries, Sheba, a bohemian novi...
but the boy knew what he was doing. Come on he is 15 not 8. that old hag really needs to belong in a mental hospital or needs theraphy. Under a different mood or tone of the movie she would be scary, anyways if a teacher is that good looking than so be it.
