
Diana Watts is an English teacher at Westerbrook High School in Austin, Texas. A longtime and continuing undisclosed issue between her and her mother may be only one factor in Diana looking for love in the wrong place. That place is at school, as she has just embarked on a secret affair with one of her students, Eric Tull. This relationship is the most fulfilling she's had in quite some time. A few incidents and the first real close call in being caught leads to Diana calling... (Full plot summary below)
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Diana Watts is an English teacher at Westerbrook High School in Austin, Texas. A longtime and continuing undisclosed issue between her and her mother may be only one factor in Diana looking for love in the wrong place. That place is at school, as she has just embarked on a secret affair with one of her students, Eric Tull. This relationship is the most fulfilling she's had in quite some time. A few incidents and the first real close call in being caught leads to Diana calling off the affair several months in, as she finally comes to the understanding that being caught would certainly mean the end of her teaching career and her good reputation. This close time away from Eric also gives Diana the opportunity to look at their relationship through a slightly different perspective, with the old adage of absence making the heart grow fonder kicking in. As such, Diana gets torn between doing what she knows is the right thing by staying away from Eric, or listening to her troubled heart, her growing obsession and need for what she considers love which may make staying away from Eric difficult.
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| Chicago ReaderBen SachsThe movie is lifeless for its first hour, and the last-minute outpourings are too little, too late. |
| Thompson on HollywoodRyan LattanzioAn intimate, tres European, two-character piece free of easy moralism that ranks among the best debuts in recent memory. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeAs the teacher, Lindsay Burdge gives a stunning performance. |
| Movie MezzanineDan SchindelA starkly bitter antidote to the basic cable movies-of-the-week that have traditionally been made about teacher-student affairs. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyBy continually deferring dramatic tension, the filmmaker puts more weight on the movie’s closing scenes — which are abrupt but true to life — than they can handle. |
| The PlaylistGabe ToroThe intensity of Burdge’s excellent performance—and Fidell's intense, often claustrophobic filmmaking—carries the picture far, but when she turns away from the camera (and she does often), you can almost feel Fidell reaching for spare ideas. |
| Hollywood & FineMarshall FineA strong dramatic vision and the intelligence to carry it out with minimal resources..the kind of movie we need more of: thought-provoking, unshowy but deeply affecting. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyWhat makes the film work is that this potentially lurid material is treated at all times with sensitivity and probing psychological seriousness. |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonDespite a deeply invested lead performance, A Teacher gives off strong vapors of phoniness; it's an exercise in lazy minimalism. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakHannah Fidell drops us into her emotionally heavy drama A Teacher-devoid of the logistics in lieu of the insatiable connection they so obviously share. |