The Teachers’ Lounge (2023)

Drama /
7.6/10
100% – Critics

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A school as a symbol for a deeply insecure society

A young teacher (Leonie BENESCH) full of idealism is very annoyed by the frequent thefts at her school. She leaves money in her jacket and secretly leaves the camera on her laptop. In fact, a suspected Thief can later be spotted on the recordings, but that is when the war of nerves really begins…

Ilker CATAKs film is not just another film about the school system, but actually a tangible psychological thriller that just happens to play among students, school staff, parents and teachers. Incidentally, the enlightening psychogram of a deeply insecure society is created, which hides behind formulaic behavior and flees from the obvious reality. A cinematic masterpiece that also reflects the confinement and distress in which the characters find themselves through the image design.

Leonie BENESCH as the main actress has repeatedly demonstrated international acting stature. A big surprise of this film is the inspiring portrayal of a school secretary by Austrian actress Eva LÖBAU, who is known primarily as a television inspector from the crime film series TATORT, which has been very successful in German-speaking countries. Among the amazing child actors, Leonard STETTNISCH in particular stands out in the film shot in Hamburg.

Also highly recommended is Ilker CATAKs (born 1984 in Berlin) previous film ES GILT DAS GESPROCHENE WORT / I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE (2019).

Can’t really understand the high praise

A special surrealism runs through the film because of the often radical behavior of the school towards the students. I often even had to think of Die Welle or 1984. In my opinion, the film fails to be a truly realistic study of the school environment.

The film generally aims for a very realistic production, almost documentary-like, which also makes it possible to show a (mostly) believable relationship between teacher and student, but does not manage to realistically portray the teachers and how they interact with each other. The dialogue is mostly so stilted and feels so fake, and the behavior of individual teachers is so naive and simple-minded that it was very difficult for me to empathize with the individual characters and especially with the main character. I also asked myself whether one should actually find the main character likeable, should exactly the opposite be the case, or should she only move in gray areas. I found you to be mostly the former. In general, you don’t learn anything at all about the characters, what they are like, what experiences they may have had with students before, and how these experiences have shaped them. But since the dialogues are so flat and most of the scenes don’t have the intensity that the film probably assumes they have, it quickly became very tiring and I had to smile about many of the discussions between the teachers because I often didn’t even notice them seriouscould take.

The film definitely has its moments, especially in scenes that are left for a long time, which really have an impact. This very cold and oppressive atmosphere also worked very well. In some places the film also resembles a horror film (e.g. When the teachergoes to the school newspaper and is interviewed). Then, unfortunately, you are taken back by the unrealistic behavior of the – especially older – students, which seems extremely fake and you ask yourself, would students really talk to a teacher like that, would they even dare to have such a conversation?

And it is precisely this naive behavior and the lack of insight into the students and teachers that simply destroys the film for me, especially because this behavior leads to other key points later in the film and thus advances the story.

In short, it definitely has its moments, builds a good atmosphere, is well acted, but ultimately it’s too bold and too simple for me.

Lesson

No pun intended – I am really hard on German dramas at times. Because I understand the language I may be able to detect flaws and bad acting – at least what I would call bad acting. Now let’s not even go that direction, because this movie blew my mind. Yes I too can learn a or my lesson! This had me on the edge of my seat at times … and the tension was … you could feel it.

The direction, the acting, the cinematography, the sound design, the set and costumes … this is really as good as I heard it was. And I can say that it will be in my top 20 movies of the year for sure! Yes I can say that at this point in time – there is no chance I will watch 20 other movies that are all better than this … just not happening.

The title is giving a bit away, but actually not much. You know this plays at a school and that teachers are the main theme here … obviously pupils will be a subject too … more than one that is. And then you have … well once something is set into motion … as the Germans would say: wenn der Stein ins Rollen kommt … which means the same thing as what was set in motion can’t be stopped … or does it? It is going to be hard for sure – and more than one players have to help make it happen.

Doing the right thing is not always the way to go. As the saying goes “no good deed goes unpunished” … not being able to say what she thinks most of the time, restrictions and trying to connect both teacher world and student world kind of are tearing our main character apart … a movie that is so rich and has so many things to discover about it … I can’t praise it enough … let’s lift it up in the air … and with this I’ll say goodbye and you can make up your own mind …

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