Monday, February 15, 2010

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

20th Century Fox
Directed by Ronald Neame
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, 20th Century Fox)

Best Actress - Maggie Smith
Nominated: Best Original Song

Interesting character study of a middle aged school teacher and her influence on impressionable young students at an all-girls school in Scotland. Maggie Smith is Jean Brodie, world-traveller, historian, poet, and lover, who lusts after the art teacher by night and music teacher on weekends. Meanwhile she teaches her students to be true to themselves and live passionately. Pamela Franklin takes the advice to heart and begins an affair with the art teacher herself. Student and teacher are soon on a collision course not of the heart, but of ideologies.

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