Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Director: Richard Eyre
Text: Matt Bochenski
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Stunning performances from Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench aside, Notes on a Scandal offers little in the way of light or love for any of its protagonists.
Not that they’re necessarily deserving. Blanchett is boho totty Sheba, hopelessly out of her depth in an inner-city high school where’s she’s caught sucking off a pupil by crypto-dyke Dench.
What follows is a convincing psychological examination of two damaged women, but with nobody to root for, it becomes a wearying saga.
