The talented Margita Gosheva grippingly plays an assertive, hardworking, honest heroine, but that's all she'll do here. Following her static, white-knuckled strain is compelling but not exactly a delight.
The Lesson
2014 · 1h 51m · UNRATED
Drama
Directed by
Kristina Grozeva
,
Petar Valchanov
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The Lesson
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An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.
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It's akin to watching someone get their knuckles cracked by a ruler, over and over again.
The script's mordant humor only makes Nade's situation feel more bleak.
A precisely paced, nightmarish thriller.
A spare, stripped-to-essentials drama about economic stress and mounting desperation that should resonate with a wide range of international audiences.
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