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The Kindergarden Teacher

Haganenet (The Kindergarten Teacher)

2014

Nadav Lapid

Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz, Gilad ben David ...

6.1

734

Drama A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Precisely lensed in an intriguing style that often makes the camera an additional protag, the pic is more artificial than the helmer’s debut, 'Policeman', and has a much narrower focus."	NEU
United Kingdom	Dan Fainaru Screendaily	"Shot by Shai Goldman with the same meticulous care Lapid took in his first film, each angle and each frame chosen with precise intentions."	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"An ambitious, aesthetically potent Israeli drama that’s at once bizarre, beautiful and deeply unsettling."	POS
United States	Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"As a dramatist Lapid can be too oblique (...) and his story runs off the rails in the last half-hour."	NEG
United States	Boyd van Hoeij IndieWire	"The film is about both the void that poetry -- and, more generally, beauty and art -- can fill in one's life. It's also study of how the few sensitive souls aware of what art can do aren't necessarily those able to make it themselves."	POS

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