The Teachers’ Lounge (2023)

Drama /
7.6/10
100% – Critics

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Frustatingly good.

Being German, i actually really dislike most of my nation’s dramas, mostly for their bleak depiction of nearly everything. An unrewarding depression mood, intertwined with bursts of out-of-place screams and violence. But this movie hit different – in the most frustatingly positive ways possible.

The central character is the overambitious teacher Carla Novak who began to teach at a German highschool, being silently confronted and appalled by the zero tolerance politics of the institution. The plot revolves around the dark grey areas of such a strict set of rules, as a series of thefts begin to disturb the carefully constructed but fragile peace. Racial profiling. Anauthorized searches. Between all of this stands our protagonist. And then she seemingly finds the culprit… with even more consequences she herself could not have imagined.

First of all – nearly every character can be seen as unlikeable in a certain way at the end of the movie, even Carla. Students. Teachers. Parents. Everyone hits different. Everybody get’s the chance to shine in a negative light. And different ideals and opinions clash. That’s a strange achievement. And it’s strangely a good one.

The actors are playing their parts so well and natural. Especially the dynamic between lead Leonie Benesch’s character and Leonards Stettnisch’s Oskar is a stand-out. At some points there are not even words needed – just some uncomfortable staring contests.

The movie sticks close to the people but is cold trough its use of muted blue-white colors and beautifully captured through a claustrophobic 4:3 lens. The music is simple and effective with a minimalistic silence, a dissonance for an overly stressful confrontation and pompous score for the outro.

Ambition, failings and social dynamics are going hand in hand. They substitute the topic of theft quite fast through the mid point of the movie. Who does support the other one’s believes and who is there to challenge them? Is everything well-meant actually good?

And we get an open end. Maybe to open. No big scale thriumph over the other. No real culprit and no real solution. Just an empty school. An empty microcosm that was inhabited by themes of communicational misteps, distrust, mobbing, fake personalities, moral ambiguity, … you name it.

You may be leaving the cinema with different opinions and ideas. And that’s the best thing a movie can achieve. Even if it isn’t going to satisfy all movie goers

Prepare for school. Watch it. Be frustrated.

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.

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