Cate Blanchett, looking luminous throughout most of the movie, takes a teaching job at a school in England. Also teaching at this school is repressed lesbian Judi Dench. Dench's character is a old horn dog, and no we are not going to call her the name one usually uses for a female dog, and it turns out that Blanchett's character is a horn dog as well. Dench falls for Blanchett and Blanchett falls for a young male student. Things get sticky, and not in a good way, and everything hits the fan when everyone finds out, courtesy of Dench, that Blanchett has been making the beast with two backs with the young kid.
Dench and Blanchett are pitch perfect at showing us the longing and loneliness of their characters. They both fecking own their characters and they own this film. Other reviewers have said that both Dench and Blanchett chewed more scenery in this movie than Al Pacino ever did in one of his 1970's character pieces, but dude, we disagree with that. These two women give nuanced performances that will stay with you long after you see this film.
The extras on the DVD were pretty standard stuff. But it was nice to see the author of the novel the film was based on, a hottie by the name of Zoe Heller, in the "making of" feature, and the guy who adapted the book into the screen play, Patrick Marber, was in there as well and it turns out he was one of the writers of one of our favorite BBC shows ever Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge.
Even though this flick had chicks at the heart of the story, it was not a chick flick and therefore it is well worth your time. The only drawback to the movie in our opinion was that none of the characters had a mullet.
This was a good movie. So say us. So say we all!
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