The Lesson | |
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Directed by | Alice Troughton |
Written by | Alex MacKeith |
Produced by | Camille Gatin Cassandra Sigsgaard Judy Tossell Fabien Westerhoff |
Starring | Richard E. Grant Julie Delpy Daryl McCormack |
Cinematography | Anna Patarakina |
Edited by | Paulo Pandolpho |
Music by | Isobel Waller-Bridge |
Production companies | Poison Chef Egoli Tossell Jeva Films |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures Focus Features |
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Running time | 103 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $310,746[2][3] |
The Lesson is a 2023 British thriller film written by Alex MacKeith, directed by Alice Troughton and starring Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack.
In May 2022, Bleecker Street acquired United States distribution rights to the then titled film, The Tutor.[4][5]
The film premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.[6] It was released in theaters on July 7, 2023 in the United States and in theaters in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2023 by Universal Pictures and Focus Features.[7][8]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 101 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Even if it isn't always quite as clever as it seems to think it is, sharp performances from an outrageously talented cast make The Lesson worth learning."[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[10]
Guy Lodge of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Who is writing what, and to what extent it matters, are the questions that keep director Alice Troughton and screenwriter Alex MacKeith’s mutual debut feature interesting, even as it slides into occasional, overheated cliché."[11] Caryn James of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a very positive review, citing "a clever script that keeps us off guard, the setting of a gracious country estate whose sumptuous visuals mask a dark undercurrent, and a score that entices us into an increasingly unsettling world..."[12]