Writer-director Sandra Goldbacher, a former BBC documentarian, fills the film with arid pauses, creating a claustrophobic study in ''repression.''
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This review of The Governess (1998) was written by Jay Carr and published by Boston Globe on 28 Mar 1999.
The Governess has generally received mixed reviews.
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