Margaret Hinxman

Apr 8, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Bruno Savill De Jong |Isabel Stevens |Margaret Hinxman |Becca Voelcker

The Teachers’ Lounge is the latest in a recent wave of films – from Monster to The Holdovers – that grapple with the challenges and compromises of being a schoolteacher. Teachers are having a tough time. Between underfunded institutions, potential union strikes, and paranoia about pupils being ‘corrupted’, the thankless roles of educators have been put under increased scrutiny.

Apr 8, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Isabel Stevens |Margaret Hinxman |Becca Voelcker |Jonathan Romney

The films we watch as children cast their spell on us and watching them as adults, exiled from our childhoods, gives us a brief interlude back there.