Richard Eyre
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Richard Eyre
Academy Award® winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give wickedly entertaining, Oscar-nominated performances—one as a woman consumed by her colleague’s guilty secret, the other, a victim to her own dark obsessions—in this sexy, stylish thriller. Dench mesmerizes as Barbara Covett, a teacher who rules over her classroom with an iron fist, yet leads a desperate, solitary life outside it. That is, until she meets radiant new art teacher Sheba Hart (Blanchett). Although at first overjoyed with her newfound kindred spirit, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having an affair with a teenage student, her jealously and rage spiral out of control.
Richard Eyre
Iris teems with fussy charm and the intimate joy found only in a lover’s foibles. Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris (Kate Winslet)—ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal—to the elder Iris (Judi Dench)—slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer’s—and it is impossible not to be moved by the film’s denouement of loss. Ms. Dench is, as usual, resplendent,…
