The Kindergarten Teacher: is this Maggie Gyllenhaal's finest performance to date?

She annoys the shit out of me.

Maggie is getting career best reviews for her performance in this film can she be nominated for Oscar or Golden Globe?

Gyllenhaal always looks like she needs a bath.

‘The Kindergarten Teacher’: Maggie Gyllenhaal Peaks in Poetry Prodigy Drama

She's so fug I actually find her difficult go watch.

For 41, she looks more like 61.

She seems so pleased with herself, eternally grateful and satisfied for deigning to share her unending talents with the masses.

I tried watching this but lasted about 15 mins.

The little boy and his stupid 'poetry' is so bad I wanted something horrible to happen to him.

[quote]She seems so pleased with herself, eternally grateful and satisfied for deigning to share her unending talents with the masses.

She's very kind in person when not on set. She does seem to come off as pretentious otherwise but that isn't reflective of her actual personality face to face.

I've always appreciated the fact that, unlike her brother, she went to and finished school at Columbia. She actually bothered to study her craft even after that. She took the long way 'round and it shows. Her work in The Honourable Woman was amazing and she always gives a solid performance.

Katie Holmes wasn’t available?

Thought it was brilliant. Don’t read the Rolling Stone review at R2, too many spoilers. Maggie G. is fantastic in it. She’s always so fearless. Have loved her since Secretary.

Not all of it works, but Maggie Gyllenhaal is stunning and continues to be one of the most underrated actresses working today (The Deuce is great). She carries this intriguing premise through some bumps all the way to its intensely uncomfortable yet utterly perfect ending. It doesn't have all the answers for you and is better for it. Gyllenhaal won't be recognized for the role, but she and Toni Collette mop the floor with the current frontrunners.

R10 Tammy's ex beard is an awful actress

Can you elaborate more on "she studied her craft" after college?

I'm curious about her background in terms of studying acting and developing her craft, which is a total lost art for actors these days.

People diss Cooper but he's a properly trained actor who has worked relentlessly to be a very good actor. I didn't know Maggie did the same figured because of her family she got in on a whim.

It's garbage. Watch the original Israeli film that it is based on from 2014 - now there is a work of art and a lead performance of perfection to go with it.

In 1995, she graduated from Harvard–Westlake and moved to New York to attend Columbia University, where she studied literature and Eastern religions. She also studied acting for a summer term at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, England.

I am watching this movie on Netflix. I had to stop. I find the subject matter difficult. I have always liked Maggie G’s performances and she is great in Kindergarten Teacher. It reminds me alot of her performance and her character in Secretary.

The Secretary was garbage

Why is the subject matter difficult? This sounds like a sweet story?

Cooper is trained but always falls short of delivering in emotional scenes. Couldn’t do it in Silver Linings, doesn’t deliver it in ASIB. Sometimes his performances seem more like he’s in acting class.

[quote]Why is the subject matter difficult? This sounds like a sweet story?

I haven’t read any reviews so I don’t know how spoilery to get but......it’s not a sweet story. The main character is an anti-hero.

Has anyone worked with Maggie or know her? She seems unbearably smug in interviews and I've read that the crews on her films always hate her

Maggie is a cunt because all famous people are -- especially those who are entitled Hollywood DNA types .....

But also because she feels she should be a MUCH bigger star and it never materialized for her. It's hard to remember but she was IT for about 15 minutes when she first came out. She saw herself as a Gooper Paltrow-Amy Adams level of movie star with critical success. But A+ list.

As it stands, nobody knows her, her looks are lampooned -- her IMDB page was the most horrific, mean-spirited message board of the entire site -- and she won't be remembered.

Watched it last night. Agree with R12 that not everything works script-wise, but Gyllenhaal is excellent.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's performance carries 'Kindergarten Teacher'

R22 she's very kind

I liked the movie. I was more impressed with the kid prodigy.

That reminds me, I gotta buy some syrup

If you loved "Notes on a Scandal," you might like this. It's an ambiguous and creepy psychodrama. Best not to read any of the reviews before seeing it.

I know that on one occasion when she was offered a supporting role in an ensemble cast type of film (where every actor was more famous than her) she asked for additional scenes to be written for her character - she didn't consider the part to be worth playing as written. It would have made no sense for the story of the film to do such a thing, so she was replaced. I believe the impression among those who were there for this exchange was: "thinks VERY highly of herself."

Her characters always give that air--- "thinks highly of herself." Even on The Deuce, her character acts too good for the pimps.

She has no sexual heat with any co-star.

Maggie and Gael

She is weird looking. Gael is super hot, but also really tiny. I never noticed it until this movie.

Gael is 168 cm

Maggie is 175 cm

Just finished watching this. It’s really great. Uncomfortable and awkward, but not horrifying.

My boyfriend has worked with both Gyllenhaals and said they’re both cunts. Regardless I think Maggie is fantastic in this. And it should go without saying that there’s a difference between being a cunt and being a bad actor. She’s pretty great. And no more full of herself than Meryl Streep. Come on.

Highly recommend this movie. Wish there were more like it—slowly paced, thoughtful, ambiguous, unsettling. Fuck the comic book hero movies.

This version confused me so I watched the original which was better and put it more in context.

Much of Maggie's cunty behavior is because she feels like she should be a MUCH bigger star compared her lesser contepmperoraies and peers (in terms of acting ability) and has openly admitted in the past she would love to get parts other actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow and Amy Adams got. This was a few years ago. And she's right to feel that way. I think it's clear she's the best actress of her generation.

Men don't want to fuck Maggie like they do other actresses who are deemed more attractive. Sad but that's the way it goes. And always has.

Maggie Gyllenhaal On ‘The Sexiness, Opera & Punk’ In Netflix’s ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’

R40 She's very popular in celebrity nude sites

R23 you must not have ever seen the George Clooney message board! It was surreal, all of this vicious stuff about him being married to a terrorist. The same thread, endlessly. I wanted to discuss Solaris but it was all hostility there.

Yes, I think it is. She is brilliant in this film. So is Parker Sevak, the child actor who plays Jimmy. The only weak link is Gael Garcia Bernal, who is terribly miscast as the poetry professor.

She's a good actress but she and Franco are about the worst things about The Deuce. I just lose interest as soon as their characters are on the screen.

The kid in this was so annoying and the poetry was shit.

R38 I'm glad someone has watched the original Israeli film which is far superior in every respect.

I don't think Maggie is a great actress... more like, passable. Also, from interviews she either seems extremely pompous or on the spectrum or something. No wonder her career is going nowhere.

Robbed that she wasn't nominated for a Golden Globe. She's a terrible human (mainly because she's so unhappy about her life and career) but she's a damned fine actress.

She doesn't really interest me as an actress but I think she looks better in the picture at R33 than I have ever seen her look.

[quote]If you loved "Notes on a Scandal," you might like this.

And with that recommendation, I will be watching "The Kindergarten Teacher" tonight. I loved Notes on a Scandal; anything that shows how deliciously awful people can be, I am there in the front row.