The Lesson (2023 film)
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| Directed by | Alice Troughton |
| Written by | Alex MacKeith |
| Produced by | Camille Gatin Cassandra Sigsgaard Judy Tossell Fabien Westerhoff |
| Starring | Richard E. Grant Julie Delpy Daryl McCormack |
| Cinematography | Anna Patarakina |
| Edited by | Paulo Pandolpho |
| Music by | Isobel Waller-Bridge |
Production companies | Poison Chef Egoli Tossell Jeva Films |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures Focus Features |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $310,746 |
The Lesson is a 2023 British psychological thriller film written by Alex MacKeith, directed by Alice Troughton and starring Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack.
In the way that the movie is structured, it is similar to a play: there are only five key characters and almost the entire story takes place in one location.
The story is centered around the interaction between five main characters: an Oxford graduate, Liam Somers -an aspiring writer- who is employed as a tutor by a wealthy family living in a large house in the countryside; their teenage son, Bertie Sinclair, who is to be tutored by Liam; and, finally, the son’s parents, who are a famous British writer, J.M. Sinclair and his French wife Helene, who is an artist. The family employs a near-silent and enigmatic butler, Ellis, who is the fifth character: A person who sees everything but says nothing.