Review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) by Carolyn S — 15 Apr 2013
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Maggie Smith's best performance of her career. You can't take your eyes of her...she is not pretty, but men flock to her..she oozes sexuality. She won the OCSAR for this role.
She is a teacher at a school for girls in Scotland, and she is nearing middle age. She is full of life and dreams. She is fascinating, but her downfall comes when the headmistress wants her to stop filling the girls dreams with fantasy and romanticism.
She had a fling with a local artist who has tons of children and wife. He is madly in love with Jean and wants to marry marry her, but the affair is over; instead, she chooses one of her girls to be his lover. The girl the artist chose was not the girl Jean had in mind because she wasn't "the pretty one." The girl he chose was smart, provocative, and out to prove that SHE is the lover. Jean is shocked. The girl spends the rest of her school days trying to get Jean dismissed.
During all the drama, Jean is having an affair with one of the teachers, and she and her girls spend every Saturday at his home . She has the girls take long walks so she can be with her lover.
This are much more antics, and when the girls realize they have been driven down the wrong road, they also turn against Jean. Jean loved her "special group of girls and just wanted them to go into the world with a list for life, and a lust for sex. Unfortunately, she makes a fatal mistake in her history lessons. And one of her girls goes to find her brother in the war, but went to the wrong side, and she was killed.
One of my favorite movies.
This review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) was written by Carolyn S on 15 Apr 2013.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has generally received very positive reviews.
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