The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.”
Drama
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 worldview.
VIBE
A bittersweet, period-piece character study. It feels like a wistful look back at a formative, yet ultimately tragic, influence. The atmosphere is steeped in a specific time and place, with a quiet intensity that lingers.
wistfulmelancholicprovocativenostalgiccharmingsteadyperiod dramaarthousecharacter studyindoctrinationlost innocenceunconventional educationfemale agency
based on novel or booklove trianglescotlandfascismedinburghscotlandcoming of ageteachereccentricschoololder man younger woman relationshipteacher student relationshipteacher herospinsterteaching the ways of the worldnude modelingpainter as artistart teacher
