The Kindergarten Teacher (Dir. Sara Colangelo)

"Maggie Gyllenhaal In A Wonderfully Sensitive American Remake of An Israeli Original"

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Sara Colangelo
  • USA 2017
  • 96 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Stuck in Staten Island, married to a kind but oblivious husband, and living with kids that mostly ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) plods through her days teaching in a kindergarten with growing numbness. Her one source of joy is an evening poetry class. But one day everything changes - Lisa discovers that a five-year-old boy in her class may be the poet she can only dream of being.

Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a captivating performance in Sara Colangelo’s English-language remake of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s challenging 2014 drama. The film won the Best Director Award in Sundance this year.

 


  • Director Sara Colangelo
  • Production Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler
  • Script Sara Colangelo, based on the film “Haganenet” by Nadav Lapid
  • Cinematography Pepe Avila Del Pino
  • Editing Marc Lives, Lee Percy
  • Music Asher Goldschmidt
  • Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Parker Sevak, Anna Baryshnikov, Rosa Salazar
  • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.