Movie review: 'The Lesson' provides a spicy literary thriller
"The Lesson" -- ★ ★ ½ The egos are as vast and thorny as the gardens on the lush estate of a prominent author in"The Lesson," an entertaining and erudite chamber piece about a master, a tutor and a family after loss.
Daryl McCormack plays Liam Sommers, an aspiring writer who has accepted a job tutoring the son of world-famous author J.M. Sinclair , who also happens to be his literary idol. But the film begins with Liam on a fancy stage, being interviewed about his novel about a fading patriarch and a grief-stricken family that the moderator calls one of the most striking debuts of the year.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service The Sinclair family is the picture of upper-class posturing, with a household staff and a feigned formality fitting of someone who is always in control of the narrative, even at the dinner table in the company of only his son, Bertie , and wife, Hélène .
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