Kinda Can’t Stop Thinking About Her (Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal)
“You’re not young!”
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Notes on a Scandal, the 2006 two-hander starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, is described as an erotic thriller. (In an alternate universe, it’s a kind of Tár prequel: a big, brooding personality fabricating her own past and present.) I watched it the other night because I couldn’t stop thinking about the way Blanchett tries to grasp the reality of her life — that she’s sleeping with her 15-year-old student — and how it becomes a way for Judi Dench to
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