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<\/p>\nReviewed by Veronica Arvidsson. Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017.<\/p>\n
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The Taecher is the Slovakian, Czech\u00a0Republican comedy\/drama from director Jan Hrebejk, starring Zuzana Maur\u00e9ry as the teacher who\u2019s grieving her late husband and rules her student\u2019s as an unfair dictator in a classroom infected with corruption and bribes. Zuzana Maur\u00e9ry\u2019s acting career is not at all too long or distinctive but she gives an astonishing comedic self-confident performance of the role as The Teacher.<\/p>\n
The film is a story of a teacher who after having suffered the great loss of her military husband now is starting to teach a new class of young students. If her grief is what lays the foundation for her behavior to abuse her power as authority in the classroom we don\u2019t know, but we do know that it\u2019s certainly not a person at ease that the students and their parents are faced to deal with. In order to get good grades the students must perform favors for the teacher and sometimes those favors goes through their parents. The line between what is a favor and what is a bribe becomes unclear for some of the parents. It\u2019s first when one of the students is tormented severely, by the actions caused by the teacher, that some of the parents starts questioning the methods of the teacher and they pick up the fight against her, but that turns out to be easier said than done.<\/p>\n
With an authentic setting of a suburban school from the 80\u2019s in Bratislava, focusing on the composition of the scene with full shots and long takes, it\u2019s leaving the audience to really familiarize with this world, and the film succeeds to create a well orchestrated realistic tone. The dialogue is sharp and funny and the underlying theme of corrupted societies and fight against authority is very well written into these suburban uncertain characters and how they choose to deal with this situation. Just like in society some of the parents choose to play along and as long as it\u2019s beneficial for them they close their eyes to the problem, while others struggles as to how they should morally act on the situation. It\u2019s an interesting take on social structures and I enjoyed it most of the time.<\/p>\n
Sadly I don\u2019t feel like the ending lives up to the quality of the rest of the film. Compared to the leading up to it, the resolution felt flat and unsatisfying. Still I wouldn\u2019t say this film is unworthy to watch, it\u2019s entertaining for sure and the themes and ideas stays with you when you leave the theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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