Thursday, October 05, 2006

Sleeping With a 15 Year Old Boy -- Not So Scandalous If You're A Woman

A new British film stars Judi Dench as a schoolteacher who finds out her colleague Cate Blanchett is sleeping with a 15 year old male student...and uses that info to try and steam up THEIR friendship. Actually, this is quite a nice portrait of the tart, amusing Dench.

2 comments:

Michael in New York said...

Wonderful? I'll have to check it out. If you read the article, Dame Judi is slightly annoyed that the film amps up her character's lesbian desires (in the book, apparently the most she hopes for is a "roomie"). But of course the other teacher is played by Cate Blanchett and that would amp up anyone's desires.

Michael in New York said...

No wonder Judi is annoyed at the changes in the movie - it ruins the complexity of her character and makes her more of an obvious villain, I imagine.