NOTES ON A SCANDAL – Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett

Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Direction: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Patrick Marber; from Zoe Heller’s novel
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Phil Davis, Anne-Marie Duff
 

Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
 

Directed by Richard Eyre, Notes on a Scandal is a must-see for those who enjoy a cleverly constructed plot that explores human relationships to the core.
Jaded older teacher Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) contrives to ensnare young and beautiful new teacher Bathsheba Hart (Cate Blanchett). In the meantime, 15-year old student Steve Connolly (Andrew Simpson) entices Bathsheba into a turbulent affair, while Sheba’s husband (Bill Nighy) and children all tear at Sheba’s loyalties.
Credible characters fill Patrick Marber’s clever script (from Zoe Heller’s novel): The management-minded headmaster, the happily [...]

by Rosemary Westwell | February 7, 2007   
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STAGE BEAUTY d: Richard Eyre

Stage Beauty (2004)
Director: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Jeffrey Hatcher; from his own play Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Zoe Tapper, Ben Chaplin, Richard Griffiths, Edward Fox, Hugh Bonneville
 

 

SHAKESPEARE IN CONFUSION
Despite touches from A Star Is Born, All About Eve, Farewell, My Concubine, and the many versions of Viktor und Viktoria, Stage Beauty’s raison d’être is the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. Like its predecessor, this romantic comedy about gender impersonations in old-time British theater may even succeed in becoming a critical and box-office hit in spite of itself. For Stage Beauty, directed by Richard Eyre and adapted for the screen by Jeffrey Hatcher (from his own play), is as much of a calculated crowd-pleaser [...]

by Andre Soares | October 17, 2004   
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