A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
Maggie Smith in one of those technically stunning, emotionally distant performances that the British are so damn good at.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Maggie Smith is handed a part in the eccentric, trite, purposeful and finally pathetic Jean Brodie which allows her to play to all her considerable strengths.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Maggie Smith's tour-de-force performance as a school-teacher slipping into spinsterhood is one of several notable achievements in this sentimental and macabre personal tragedy.