After playing prostitute-turned-blockbuster porn director Candy Merrell on HBO’s gritty ’70s/’80s NYC crime drama The Deuce, portraying a Kindergarten teacher who yearns to become a poet in Netflix’s The Kindergarten Teacher “was the next step” says actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
And by “next step”, the Crazy Heart supporting actress Oscar nominee means a project that “is an articulation of me”.
While Candy maneuvers and rises to a position of control on The Deuce amid the chaos around her, Gyllenhaal’s Lisa Spinelli in Kindergarten Teacher is “a regular woman” falling apart. She lives a humdrum life with a blase husband, two teenage kids who disrespect her, but finds a creative muse in her five-year old student Jimmy (Parker Sevak). Ya see, Jimmy can write poetry off the top of his head. He becomes a fountainhead for Lisa who is struggling in a night school poetry course. She starts...
And by “next step”, the Crazy Heart supporting actress Oscar nominee means a project that “is an articulation of me”.
While Candy maneuvers and rises to a position of control on The Deuce amid the chaos around her, Gyllenhaal’s Lisa Spinelli in Kindergarten Teacher is “a regular woman” falling apart. She lives a humdrum life with a blase husband, two teenage kids who disrespect her, but finds a creative muse in her five-year old student Jimmy (Parker Sevak). Ya see, Jimmy can write poetry off the top of his head. He becomes a fountainhead for Lisa who is struggling in a night school poetry course. She starts...
- 12/7/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs actor Tim Blake Nelson first received the script for the Coen brothers-directed project back in 2002. Private Life director Tamara Jenkins revealed she wasn’t sure she wanted to broach the topic of infertility before embarking on Private Life. And Maggie Gyllenhaal said she needed to own the role of an educator obsessed with her student’s genius in The Kindergarten Teacher.
The trio of films represented the contingent of Netflix films taking the spotlight Saturday at The Contenders NY, the biggest company grouping of the all-day event.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from Joel and Ethan Coen had a long gestation. The filmmaking duo completed a number of other projects before turning back to Scruggs with Tim Blake Nelson in the saddle as Buster. “I like to say Buster Scruggs is a great friend, but you wouldn’t want him as an enemy,” said Nelson.
The trio of films represented the contingent of Netflix films taking the spotlight Saturday at The Contenders NY, the biggest company grouping of the all-day event.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from Joel and Ethan Coen had a long gestation. The filmmaking duo completed a number of other projects before turning back to Scruggs with Tim Blake Nelson in the saddle as Buster. “I like to say Buster Scruggs is a great friend, but you wouldn’t want him as an enemy,” said Nelson.
- 12/2/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Title: The Kindergarten Teacher Screenwriter and Director: Sara Colangelo Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Parker Sevak, Michael Chernus, Rosa Salazar. There are adults who are grateful to their teachers, for having encouraged them to nurture their talents. But there is a thin line between guidance and intrusiveness. This is the story tackled with exceptional […]
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- 10/25/2018
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
In The Kindergarten Teacher Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a career-best performance leading writer/director Sara Colangelo’s potent tale of obsession between a teacher and her young student. The controversial film came to the capital tonight for the 2018 London Film Festival and we spoke to the cast on the red carpet.
Gyllenhaal talked about how surprising it was when she read the first script, how it was working with her very young co-star and how they kept the filming fun, working like a documentary at times. She also talked about how the film leaves you with questions, and how the ambiguity is part of the point of the film.
The film also stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Parker Sevak, Ato Blankson-Wood, Lbya Pugh, Michael Chernus, Carter Kokima and Anna Baryshnikov.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were our crew on the red carpet. The Kindergarten Teacher is released on the 23th of October,...
Gyllenhaal talked about how surprising it was when she read the first script, how it was working with her very young co-star and how they kept the filming fun, working like a documentary at times. She also talked about how the film leaves you with questions, and how the ambiguity is part of the point of the film.
The film also stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Parker Sevak, Ato Blankson-Wood, Lbya Pugh, Michael Chernus, Carter Kokima and Anna Baryshnikov.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were our crew on the red carpet. The Kindergarten Teacher is released on the 23th of October,...
- 10/19/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Maggie Gyllenhaal turns in a masterfully nuanced performance as a teacher who becomes obsessed with fostering her student's artistic talent.
Maggie Gyllenhaal has been steadily churning out finely wrought character pieces for two decades. The Kindergarten Teacher, out this week from Netflix, is another in the long, masterful line. In The Kindergarten Teacher, Gyllenhaal teams up with director Sara Colangelo and an all-female producing team to star as Lisa Spinelli, a veteran teacher who becomes obsessed with fostering the nascent poetic talents of sweet, doe-eyed Jimmy (Parker Sevak), one of her young students, and protecting that talent from what she sees as a disinterested world. It's a disturbing film to watch, most especially and effectively because Colangelo sticks very close to Lisa. The camera rarely looks away from Lisa, even and especially in her most intimate and desperate moments, and therefore the viewer can't either.
Per the usual, Gyllenhaal nails it with her complex performance.
Maggie Gyllenhaal has been steadily churning out finely wrought character pieces for two decades. The Kindergarten Teacher, out this week from Netflix, is another in the long, masterful line. In The Kindergarten Teacher, Gyllenhaal teams up with director Sara Colangelo and an all-female producing team to star as Lisa Spinelli, a veteran teacher who becomes obsessed with fostering the nascent poetic talents of sweet, doe-eyed Jimmy (Parker Sevak), one of her young students, and protecting that talent from what she sees as a disinterested world. It's a disturbing film to watch, most especially and effectively because Colangelo sticks very close to Lisa. The camera rarely looks away from Lisa, even and especially in her most intimate and desperate moments, and therefore the viewer can't either.
Per the usual, Gyllenhaal nails it with her complex performance.
- 10/15/2018
- Den of Geek
The uncommonly adventurous Maggie Gyllenhaal hits a new career peak with The Kindergarten Teacher, compelling us to understand a woman who maybe doesn’t understand herself. That’s an apt description of her Lisa Spinelli, a Staten Island wife and mother who’s been teaching kindergarten for 20 years — the kind of person whose soft voice barely disguises the fact that she’s screaming inside. Lisa has dreams of being a poet, an artistic calling whose wheels have come off as the culture dives further into digital, short-attention-span freefall. She has...
- 10/12/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a good person. She’s a loving mother, a caring wife, and, as the titular educator in “The Kindergarten Teacher,” a dedicated professional. She has endless patience for her students, even as she fills their juice cups up for the thousandth time.
And yet.
Who could fill a juice cup a thousand times, without going a little crazy? Watch her teenage children grow up and move on, without her heart breaking? Or look at her worn-out spouse and her worn-in Staten Island home, and not wish for more?
Watch Video: Maggie Gyllenhaal Teeters at Edge of Art and Madness as 'The Kindergarten Teacher' (Exclusive)
It’s clear early on in Sara Colangelo’s intently understated drama (premiering October 12 in limited release and on Netflix) that Lisa wants more. And all that dissatisfaction, that feeling that life is half over and she’s barely accomplished anything?...
And yet.
Who could fill a juice cup a thousand times, without going a little crazy? Watch her teenage children grow up and move on, without her heart breaking? Or look at her worn-out spouse and her worn-in Staten Island home, and not wish for more?
Watch Video: Maggie Gyllenhaal Teeters at Edge of Art and Madness as 'The Kindergarten Teacher' (Exclusive)
It’s clear early on in Sara Colangelo’s intently understated drama (premiering October 12 in limited release and on Netflix) that Lisa wants more. And all that dissatisfaction, that feeling that life is half over and she’s barely accomplished anything?...
- 10/10/2018
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Wildlife
Directed by Paul Dano
The directorial debut of prolific actor Dano, “Wildlife” centers on a 1960s Montana couple (Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal) who’ve reached a turning point in their marriage. The emotionally complex narrative pivots on how their 14-year-old son, played by Ed Oxenbould, processes the changes in the dynamics of his parents’ relationship. “It’s a family portrait,” says Dano. He hopes that “people will see a piece of themselves in the film. The more personal something is to someone, the more universal it becomes. It’s always about making a connection.”
Boy Erased
Directed by Joel Edgerton
Adapted for the screen, co-starring, and directed by eclectic talent Edgerton (“The Gift”), the provocative drama “Boy Erased,” which played Toronto, takes a devastating and impactful look at the controversial practice of gay-conversion therapy, and the perilous effects it has on one individual and his deeply religious Christain family.
Directed by Paul Dano
The directorial debut of prolific actor Dano, “Wildlife” centers on a 1960s Montana couple (Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal) who’ve reached a turning point in their marriage. The emotionally complex narrative pivots on how their 14-year-old son, played by Ed Oxenbould, processes the changes in the dynamics of his parents’ relationship. “It’s a family portrait,” says Dano. He hopes that “people will see a piece of themselves in the film. The more personal something is to someone, the more universal it becomes. It’s always about making a connection.”
Boy Erased
Directed by Joel Edgerton
Adapted for the screen, co-starring, and directed by eclectic talent Edgerton (“The Gift”), the provocative drama “Boy Erased,” which played Toronto, takes a devastating and impactful look at the controversial practice of gay-conversion therapy, and the perilous effects it has on one individual and his deeply religious Christain family.
- 10/5/2018
- by Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
Sara Colangelo's Maggie Gyllenhaal-starrer The Kindergarten Teacher will serve as the opening-night film of this year's Hamptons International Film Festival, it was announced today. The movie, about an educator who uses questionable methods to cultivate the poetic talents of one of her students, also stars Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar and Gael Garcia Bernal. Colangelo is an alum of Hiff's annual screenwriters lab.
This year's festival will also feature works from other screenwriters lab alums: Isold Uggadottir’s And Breathe Normally and Cathy Yan's Dead Pigs. Uggadottir participated in the 2015 lab, and her film — about the ...
This year's festival will also feature works from other screenwriters lab alums: Isold Uggadottir’s And Breathe Normally and Cathy Yan's Dead Pigs. Uggadottir participated in the 2015 lab, and her film — about the ...
- 8/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sara Colangelo's Maggie Gyllenhaal-starrer The Kindergarten Teacher will serve as the opening-night film of this year's Hamptons International Film Festival, it was announced today. The movie, about an educator who uses questionable methods to cultivate the poetic talents of one of her students, also stars Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar and Gael Garcia Bernal. Colangelo is an alum of Hiff's annual screenwriters lab.
This year's festival will also feature works from other screenwriters lab alums: Isold Uggadottir’s And Breathe Normally and Cathy Yan's Dead Pigs. Uggadottir participated in the 2015 lab, and her film — about the ...
This year's festival will also feature works from other screenwriters lab alums: Isold Uggadottir’s And Breathe Normally and Cathy Yan's Dead Pigs. Uggadottir participated in the 2015 lab, and her film — about the ...
- 8/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Kindergarten Teacher” will open the 26th Hamptons International Film Festival on Oct. 4.
Gyllenhaal portrays a kindergarten teacher uses questionable methods to cultivate the poetic talents of one of her students.
Sara Colangelo directed the film, which also stars Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, and Gael García Bernal. Colangelo is a 2013 alumna of the festival’s annual screenwriters lab. She and Gyllenhaal will both attend the festival.
“The Kindergarten Teacher” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will also be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It is scheduled to be released Oct. 12 on Netflix.
The festival will also feature works from two other alums of its screenwriters lab: 2015 participant Ísold Uggadóttir’s “And Breathe Normally,” about the blossoming relationship of two women in Iceland — one an airport worker, the other a detained refugee; and 2016 participant Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs,” about the...
Gyllenhaal portrays a kindergarten teacher uses questionable methods to cultivate the poetic talents of one of her students.
Sara Colangelo directed the film, which also stars Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, and Gael García Bernal. Colangelo is a 2013 alumna of the festival’s annual screenwriters lab. She and Gyllenhaal will both attend the festival.
“The Kindergarten Teacher” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will also be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It is scheduled to be released Oct. 12 on Netflix.
The festival will also feature works from two other alums of its screenwriters lab: 2015 participant Ísold Uggadóttir’s “And Breathe Normally,” about the blossoming relationship of two women in Iceland — one an airport worker, the other a detained refugee; and 2016 participant Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs,” about the...
- 8/15/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix's The Kindergarten Teacher isn't necessarily being billed as a thriller, but the first trailer for the Sundance and Tiff-award winner will leave you deeply unsettled. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lisa Spinelli, a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who discovers that her 5-year-old student Jimmy (Parker Sevak) is potentially a gifted poet. Despite his parents' clear instructions that Jimmy not get involved with Lisa's poetic aspirations, the teacher finds herself heading down a dangerous path of obsession with the child. More than a few moments from the trailer will make you gasp, so check it out above before The Kindergarten Teacher hits the streaming network on Oct. 12.
- 8/13/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Netflix has released the first trailer for the Sara Colangelo directed drama, The Kindergarten Teacher starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Originally an Israeli film from filmmaker Nadav Lapid, Sara Colangelo jumped on board to adapt and direct the film into the English Language. Gyllenhaal plays an unlikable Kindergarten Teacher who, after seeing major potential in one of her five-year students kidnaps the boy.
Parker Sevak, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazer and Michael Chernus also star in the hard-hitting drama.
Also in trailers – Chloë Grace Moretz tries to settle into a Gay conversion camp in trailer for The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The film hits the streaming giant on October 12.
The Kindergarten Teacher Official Synopsis
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher in Staten Island who yearns to live a life of art and intellectualism. She takes an evening poetry class but, despite her best efforts, her work is mediocre.
When she...
Originally an Israeli film from filmmaker Nadav Lapid, Sara Colangelo jumped on board to adapt and direct the film into the English Language. Gyllenhaal plays an unlikable Kindergarten Teacher who, after seeing major potential in one of her five-year students kidnaps the boy.
Parker Sevak, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazer and Michael Chernus also star in the hard-hitting drama.
Also in trailers – Chloë Grace Moretz tries to settle into a Gay conversion camp in trailer for The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The film hits the streaming giant on October 12.
The Kindergarten Teacher Official Synopsis
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher in Staten Island who yearns to live a life of art and intellectualism. She takes an evening poetry class but, despite her best efforts, her work is mediocre.
When she...
- 8/10/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Kindergarten Teacher Trailer Sara Colangelo‘s The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) movie trailer stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazar, and Ajay Naidu. The Kindergarten Teacher‘s plot synopsis: “When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher (Maggie Gyllenhaal) discovers what may be a gifted five year-old student in her class, [...]
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- 8/10/2018
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
After a handful of female-directed Sundance films from this year have already found distribution and critical reception – including Madeline’s Madeline, The Tale, and Skate Kitchen – Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher now finally joins them; slated to premiere on October 12th on Netflix. Ahead of its debut and stop at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the first trailer has now arrived.
With The Kindergarten Teacher, Sara Colangelo clocks in her second feature-length directorial outing following her debut 2014 drama-thriller Little Accidents, which also premiered at Sundance. Working within similar genre boundaries, The Kindergarten Teacher centers on Lisa Spinelli (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) a kindergarten teacher who becomes unusually obsessed with one of her students (played by Parker Sevak) after she discovers what only seems to be an inherent talent for poetry. In the first trailer for the film, we get a preview of the psychologically complex story Colangelo strives to tell.
With The Kindergarten Teacher, Sara Colangelo clocks in her second feature-length directorial outing following her debut 2014 drama-thriller Little Accidents, which also premiered at Sundance. Working within similar genre boundaries, The Kindergarten Teacher centers on Lisa Spinelli (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) a kindergarten teacher who becomes unusually obsessed with one of her students (played by Parker Sevak) after she discovers what only seems to be an inherent talent for poetry. In the first trailer for the film, we get a preview of the psychologically complex story Colangelo strives to tell.
- 8/10/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
"If you stay curious, then you can see the world however you want." Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for an indie drama titled The Kindergarten Teacher, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. It won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance, and will play at the Toronto Film Festival next month. Described as a "tense psychological thriller", this film is actually a remake of an Israeli film also titled The Kindergarten Teacher. The story follows a teacher who gets obsessed with figuring out how to support and accentuate a gifted young boy who recites poems out of nowhere. Maggie Gyllenhaal stars, with Parker Sevak as the boy, plus Anna Baryshnikov, Rosa Salazar, Michael Chernus, and Gael Garcia Bernal. This is a very compelling, thought-provoking film with some strong performances, and it played to great reviews at Sundance. I really hope it finds an audience and begins many discussions.
- 8/9/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Maggie Gyllenhaal is gearing up for a big fall season. In addition to returning to her leading role on HBO’s “The Deuce,” which returns for a second season in September, the actress is also leading the acclaimed Sundance indie “The Kindergarten Teacher.” The film is being released on the streaming platform this October and has debuted its first official trailer.
The movie marks writer-director Sara Colangelo’s adaptation of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name. Gyllenhaal stars as an elementary school teacher who forms a morally questionable relationship with one of her students after coming to believe he is a child prodigy. The supporting cast includes Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazar, and the young Parker Sevak.
“The Kindergarten Teacher” is set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next month and debuts October 12 on Netflix. Watch the trailer below.
The movie marks writer-director Sara Colangelo’s adaptation of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name. Gyllenhaal stars as an elementary school teacher who forms a morally questionable relationship with one of her students after coming to believe he is a child prodigy. The supporting cast includes Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazar, and the young Parker Sevak.
“The Kindergarten Teacher” is set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next month and debuts October 12 on Netflix. Watch the trailer below.
- 8/9/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Maggie Gyllenhaal has a dangerous obsession with poetry, teases the official trailer for Netflix drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
In the trailer for the upcoming film, Gyllenhaal is a kindergarten teacher named Lisa, who, after noticing one of her students recite an original poem, becomes engulfed in nurturing his talent to ensure he becomes the next "young Mozart."
"The sun hits her yellow house. It is almost like a sign from God," 5-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) is overheard reciting by memory, forcing Lisa to soon travel down a dark hole of idolization. Obsessed with modernizing Jimmy'...
In the trailer for the upcoming film, Gyllenhaal is a kindergarten teacher named Lisa, who, after noticing one of her students recite an original poem, becomes engulfed in nurturing his talent to ensure he becomes the next "young Mozart."
"The sun hits her yellow house. It is almost like a sign from God," 5-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) is overheard reciting by memory, forcing Lisa to soon travel down a dark hole of idolization. Obsessed with modernizing Jimmy'...
Maggie Gyllenhaal has a dangerous obsession with poetry, teases the official trailer for Netflix drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
In the trailer for the upcoming film, Gyllenhaal is a kindergarten teacher named Lisa, who, after noticing one of her students recite an original poem, becomes engulfed in nurturing his talent to ensure he becomes the next "young Mozart."
"The sun hits her yellow house. It is almost like a sign from God," 5-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) is overheard reciting by memory, forcing Lisa to soon travel down a dark hole of idolization. Obsessed with modernizing Jimmy'...
In the trailer for the upcoming film, Gyllenhaal is a kindergarten teacher named Lisa, who, after noticing one of her students recite an original poem, becomes engulfed in nurturing his talent to ensure he becomes the next "young Mozart."
"The sun hits her yellow house. It is almost like a sign from God," 5-year-old Jimmy (Parker Sevak) is overheard reciting by memory, forcing Lisa to soon travel down a dark hole of idolization. Obsessed with modernizing Jimmy'...
Sundance award winner with Maggie Gyllenhaal gets all-rights deal with streaming service.
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
- 2/23/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Sundance award winner with Maggie Gyllenhaal gets all-rights deal with streaming service.
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
Netflix has acquired all rights for the Us and Canada to Sundance award-winning drama The Kindergarten Teacher.
The streaming service aims to release the film, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, later this year.
Writer-director Sara Colangelo won the Directing Award: Us Dramatic at the recent Sundance festival for the film, her follow-up to her Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut Little Accidents.
Gyllenhaal, also one of the film’s producers, plays a Staten Island kindergarten teacher who, when she discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old in her class, becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child.
Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produce for their Pie Films and Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for their Maven Films banner. Pia Pressure, Farcaster Films, Imagination Park Entertainment, Manhattan Productions and PaperChase Films financed and co-produced.
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov, [link...
- 2/23/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
“Kung Fu” star David Carradine, the great warrior-philosopher of the 20th century, once said: “If you can’t be the poet, be the poem.” He makes it sound so easy — as though deferring your story to someone else wouldn’t feel like an act of defenestration — but then again, the man seldom met a problem he couldn’t high-kick into submission.
Lisa Spinelli (a captivating Maggie Gyllenhaal) has no such luck. The eponymous, fortysomething educator at the heart of Sara Colangelo’s “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Lisa has spent the last 20 years of her life teaching kids the alphabet and shepherding them to the next stop on the assembly line of America’s school system, and she’s finally beginning to succumb to the banality of it all.
You can see it in her posture as she sits in her classroom at the end of the day, her long body slumped...
Lisa Spinelli (a captivating Maggie Gyllenhaal) has no such luck. The eponymous, fortysomething educator at the heart of Sara Colangelo’s “The Kindergarten Teacher,” Lisa has spent the last 20 years of her life teaching kids the alphabet and shepherding them to the next stop on the assembly line of America’s school system, and she’s finally beginning to succumb to the banality of it all.
You can see it in her posture as she sits in her classroom at the end of the day, her long body slumped...
- 1/27/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A remake of the Israeli film of the same name, Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher pulls no punches. It leans full-tilt into its disturbing premise: a veteran kindergarten teacher becomes obsessed with a young student who has a gift for poetry. Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as the titular teacher and is the perfect actress for something like this. She plays every moment starkly sincere, ultimately to a fault.
There’s a tonal problem running throughout this picture that’s hard to reconcile. Lisa Spinelli (Gyllenhaal) has been a teacher for twenty years, commuting into the city from Staten Island, where she’s got a husband (Michael Chernus) and two teenage kids. Still determined to be a poet, she takes a night class taught by Gael García Bernal.
Despite her best attempts, Lisa’s poetry is soundly dismissed by teacher and students alike. Cue 5-year old Jimmy Roy (Parker Sevak), a...
There’s a tonal problem running throughout this picture that’s hard to reconcile. Lisa Spinelli (Gyllenhaal) has been a teacher for twenty years, commuting into the city from Staten Island, where she’s got a husband (Michael Chernus) and two teenage kids. Still determined to be a poet, she takes a night class taught by Gael García Bernal.
Despite her best attempts, Lisa’s poetry is soundly dismissed by teacher and students alike. Cue 5-year old Jimmy Roy (Parker Sevak), a...
- 1/25/2018
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
The Kindergarten Teacher review - brilliantly observed ethical pretzel about a poetically gifted kid
A precociously five-year-old is discovered by pre-school teacher Maggie Gyllenhaal in a wonderfully sensitive American remake of an Israeli original
Nadiv Lapid’s Hebrew-language The Kindergarten Teacher was one of the more unshakable films of 2015, with its wonderfully inscrutable nature. One of the most important things that writer-director Sara Colangelo has done in her American remake is keep the central mystery intact. There is a list of small changes, some tweaks to the characters, a few added jokes, but this is very much the same movie told a second time. Is that necessary? Sure, why the hell not, especially when either version is so great. Moreover, it’s a chance to see Maggie Gyllenhaal give one of the best performances of her career.
When we first meet Lisa Spinelli she’s a caring, patient kindergarten teacher in Staten Island who takes a weekly poetry class in Manhattan. By the end she’s a,...
Nadiv Lapid’s Hebrew-language The Kindergarten Teacher was one of the more unshakable films of 2015, with its wonderfully inscrutable nature. One of the most important things that writer-director Sara Colangelo has done in her American remake is keep the central mystery intact. There is a list of small changes, some tweaks to the characters, a few added jokes, but this is very much the same movie told a second time. Is that necessary? Sure, why the hell not, especially when either version is so great. Moreover, it’s a chance to see Maggie Gyllenhaal give one of the best performances of her career.
When we first meet Lisa Spinelli she’s a caring, patient kindergarten teacher in Staten Island who takes a weekly poetry class in Manhattan. By the end she’s a,...
- 1/20/2018
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
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