The Kindergarten Teacher is a 2018 American drama film directed by Sara Colangelo. Your email address will not be published. Directed by Sara Colangelo. Name * Email * Website. Learn how your comment data is processed. Share On: Tweet. The Kindergarten Teacher is a patient and slow-moving watch, but it's one that creates an enthralling tension beneath the surface, as we see rather bizarre but fairly innocent behaviour get more and more out of hand, furthered by a riveting social perspective that adds a … The Kindergarten Teacher is a thoroughly interesting film, teeming with nuance and subtleties. The Kindergarten Teacher is a wild exploration of what happens when a teacher fostering her student's talent goes too far. Directed by Sara Colangelo, it is an intense, creepy and uncomfortable film that examines how art can fuel unhealthy passions. Lisa Spinelli, the 40-something educator at the center of Sara Colangelo’s reflective character study “The Kindergarten Teacher,” is bored out of her mind. Comment. kindergarten-teacher-movie-explained. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Anna Baryshnikov, Rosa Salazar, Michael Chernus and Gael García Bernal. It is based on the 2014 Israeli film of the same name. ... 'The Kindergarten Teacher' Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival (competing), Jan. 19, 2017. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a teacher a little too interested in one potential-prodigy student. The Kindergarten Teacher tells a twisted tale of mentor and protégé, and displays Maggie Gyllenhaal’s immense talent. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Not only bored, but also frustrated for having a great deal to express, yet being cursed with inadequate (or moderate-at-best) creative skills to convey her novel musings through art. Initially when we meet Lisa, her loneliness is palpable. It’s a definite slow burn, a film that creeps up the tension, walking that knife edge between believable and otherwise just as its character does. You can also subscribe without commenting. With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Ato Blankson-Wood, Libya Pugh. A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Leave a Reply Cancel Reply. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a forty-year old married kindergarten teacher living in Staten Island who is terminally bored with her banal middle-class ... which plays greatly into the ending itself.