Notes on a Scandal
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new “friend” also go well beyond platonic friendship.
- Director:Richard Eyre
- Genre:Drama
- Runtime:92 minutes
Cast
Judi Dench : Barbara Covett
Cate Blanchett : Sheba Hart
Tom Georgeson : Ted Mawson
Michael Maloney : Sandy Pabblem
Joanna Scanlan : Sue Hodge
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Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) teaches history at a comprehensive school in London. A lonely old spinster, Barbara’s only “intimate relationship” is with herself by means of a diary. When a new, younger teacher Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) starts at the school, Barbara feels drawn to her and believes that she “may be the one.” Barbara discovers that Sheba is having an affair with a student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), and confronts her. When Sheba asks her to not tell the school administration until Christmas so that she can be with her family, Barbara explains she has no intention of telling, as long as she ends the relationship. However, Sheba does not end the affair with Steven, causing Barbara to taunt her emotionally and draw her down, leading her to end the affair with Steven. In months passing, Barbara’s grasp on Sheba slowly starts to take hold, with Barbara manipulating and emotionally blackmailing her, causing her attentions to be divided between her family and Barbara.
When Barbara’s cat dies and Sheba’s loyalties are easily divided, Sheba’s husband Richard shouts in anger that her friend is being an evident pain and that his wife is being twisted by Barbara. With Barbara being left alone and angry, she seeks revenge by revealing Sheba’s affair to a fellow teacher who comes to her asking her if Sheba is interested in him. The fellow teacher spreads the “playground rumour” to Steven’s mother. Mrs Connolly then comes to Sheba’s home and hits Sheba. Afterwards Sheba and her husband Richard bitterly argue. In Barbara’s voiceover, she reveals she is glad that they are arguing, knowing that Sheba will come to her for comfort, which had been Barbara’s plan to start with. The next day the media, as well as the school administration, are alerted, and Sheba’s affair and her life are turned upside down by the collapse of her marriage, the destroyed relationship with her children, and the loss of her job. Barbara is fired from the school after denying to the headmaster that she knew of the relationship; he confronts her with a copy of a restraining order taken out against Barbara by another fellow teacher whom she had previously befriended. Read more
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