I'm sure that when the idea of Mrs. Hyde was floated around, it must have seemed like a good idea. Updating an old parable about how good and evil lives inside all of us. Translating that to the role of a teacher with difficult students, again,utmost have seemed like a good idea. Getting Isabelle Huppert seemed like a great idea.
So where did they go wrong? Well, the answer is...everywhere. The movie doesn't make any sense at all, with incidents that occur, often out of the blue. And they don't make any kind of connection to the rest of the film. A jumbled, nonsensical screenplay and direction.
Ms. Huppert is good, but there is nothing in her character that is interesting, and there is not another character for her to play off of. Where she is strong and intelligent, all of the men in this film are weak and idiots.
A big mess from start to finish.
So where did they go wrong? Well, the answer is...everywhere. The movie doesn't make any sense at all, with incidents that occur, often out of the blue. And they don't make any kind of connection to the rest of the film. A jumbled, nonsensical screenplay and direction.
Ms. Huppert is good, but there is nothing in her character that is interesting, and there is not another character for her to play off of. Where she is strong and intelligent, all of the men in this film are weak and idiots.
A big mess from start to finish.