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The Lesson(Урок)

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Bulgaria, Greece · 2014
1h 51m
Director Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Starring Margita Gosheva, Ivanka Bratoeva, Ivan Barnev, Stefan Denolyubov
Genre Drama

In a small Bulgarian town Nadezhda, a young teacher, tries to find the thief in her classroom so she can teach him a lesson about right and wrong. But when she gets in debt to loan sharks, she must fight in any way possible to avoid ruin.

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The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

In exploring how an honest person might compromise her integrity in the face of insurmountable obstacles, The Lesson compromises its own sense of reality; the movie just keeps piling on the misfortune, pushing past believability into what feels like questionably intentional comedy.

60

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The plot undermines the film’s power. At the end you may be impressed at the skill on display, but you may also wish that you were more fully moved by the spectacle of a soul laid bare and transformed.

80

Village Voice by Aaron Hillis

It's a tough, gripping watch made emotionally rewarding through trenchant plotting and Gosheva's tight-lipped expressiveness.

75

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

There’s a superficial resemblance to the Dardenne brothers’ “Two Days, One Night,” and like that film it has a strong lead; Gosheva’s Nade is prickly, and no suffering saint.

80

Variety by Joe Leydon

The naturalistic style of the storytelling is stealthily enthralling, as is the lead performance by Margita Gosheva as a provincial Bulgarian schoolteacher who is slowly, inexorably driven to the edge by crushing debt.

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