It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with an underage pupil. Sheba is so self-absorbed that she doesn't notice Barbara's needs until the older woman demands not only that Sheba give up the boy, but also, eventually, her family. Notes on a Scandal in the U.S.) is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller. Notes on a Scandal (923) 7.4 1 h X-Ray R Barbara Covett is a lonely teacher who finds friendship in a fellow instructor, Sheba Hart.
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The film's finale is both harsh and broadly melodramatic, and so fits Barbara's idea of herself - deflated perhaps, but never defeated.Īs the school year starts, Barbara glowers from a second-floor window, deeming the yard full of students to be "the local pubescent proles, the future lumbers and shop assistants and doubtless the odd terrorist too." Accompanied by Philip Glass' score, Dench is delightfully forbidding here, her demeanor unchanged as the camera picks out Sheba bicycling among the uniformed students, with little sign of the complications that are about to ensue. (This is, of course, primarily a function of Dench's strong performance.) She's also strangely endearing and quite blind to herself.
The film's great trick is that no matter how badly Barbara behaves - and she does connive with some venom - she remains "sympathetic" in the sense that she's utterly compelling. Notes On A Scandal tells the story from Barbaras point of view when she becomes entangled with Sheba, a middle class housewife teaching for the first time.
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