In 'The Kindergarten Teacher,' Gyllenhaal's Nuanced Performance Earns A Gold Star
Writer-director Sarah Colangelo's film features a finely calibrated performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal as a teacher obsessed with a student. The result is a "keenly excruciating" tragedy.
Lisa Spinelli loves small children — their innocence, their enthusiasm, above all their promise. But The Kindergarten Teacher's protagonist, achingly played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, knows that most 5-year-olds don't grow up to be particularly creative or even interesting. Exhibit A: herself.
This keenly excruciating drama, a faithful remake of an Israeli film of the same name, opens aptly
