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Notes on a Scandal (DVD)

Cate Blanchett (actor), Judi Dench (actor) and Richard Eyre (director)
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Review

Box Office, 12/01/2006, p.63, "The performances here are uniformly excellent, especially Dench's..."

Movieline's Hollywood Life, 01/01/2007, P.96, "Dench brings wit as well as vulnerability and menace to her depiction....The film is expertly crafted..."

Total Film, 07/01/2007, p.125, 3 stars out of 5 -- "Patrick Marber's script crackles when it comes to collisions of private life with public view."

Rolling Stone, 12/28/2006, p.121, 3 stars out of 4 -- "Dame Judi lets us know this is a women of dark secrets. It's spellbinding to watch her blow the lid off."

Title Note

Theatrical Release: December 27, 2006

Release Note

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround - Spanish, French/Parisian
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries - Richard Eyre - Director
Behind the Scenes
Documentaries - "In Character with Cate Blanchett"
Featurettes - 1. Webisodes (4)
2. "NOTES ON A SCANDAL: The Story of Two Obsessions"
Interviews - "A Conversation with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy"
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus

Product Notes

Dame Judi Dench and Kate Blanchett face off with searing performances in this riveting tale of obsession and desire. Based on the novel by Zoe Heller, NOTES ON A SCANDAL is the story of Barbara Covett (Dench), a hard-nosed spinster schoolteacher, and her poisonous friendship with fellow teacher Sheba Hart (Blanchett). When the young and beautiful Sheba shows up as the new art instructor, everyone is charmed by her, including the embittered Barbara. Barbara is thrilled when her lonely life is shaken up by Sheba's overtures of friendship, as Sheba invites her to share in family dinners, and opens up to her about her marital troubles and personal longing. Barbara narrates her own feelings of longing to us from her meticulous diaries, and it becomes increasingly clear that her take on the friendship is uncomfortably intense, if not borderline delusional. Things reach a fever pitch when Barbara happens upon Sheba dallying in the art room with a 15-year-old student. She tells Sheba that she must end the affair at once, but decides not to report her to the school, and instead, to use her knowledge of the indiscretion to draw Sheba closer to her, and put her in her debt. But when Barbara's demands on Sheba become too high, things soon unravel, setting off a chain of events that will leave viewers chewing their nails to the quick, but unable to tear their eyes away.

Both Blanchett and Dench are dazzling to watch as they deftly handle the barbed wit of Patrick Marber's screenplay. Directed by Richard Eyre of the Northern Theatre of London, and with a score by Philip Glass, NOTES ON A SCANDAL takes what could serve as mere tabloid fodder and plays it out on the level of Shakespearean tragedy.

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