A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Adrien Brody Sami Gayle Christina Hendricks Louis Zorich Betty Kaye James Caan Lucy Liu Marcia Gay Harden Blythe Danner Tim Blake Nelson William Petersen Bryan Cranston Celia Au Isiah Whitlock Jr. Patricia Rae Ronen Rubinstein Josh Pais Reagan Leonard Chris Papavasiliou Ralph Rodriguez Mary Joy Samantha Logan
El Profesor, O Substituto, 人間師格, Detatchment, انفصال, Отчуждение, El professor, Oddělen, Μαθήματα ζωής, El profesor (Detachment), Indiferencia, Détachement, מנותק, Na zamjeni, A mintatanár, Detachment - Il distacco, デタッチメント 優しい無関心, 디태치먼트, Atsiskyrimas vardan išlikimo, Z dystansu, Учитель на замену, Odtujenost, Na distanci, Kopma, Учитель на заміну, 超脱
USA
Tribeca Film Festival
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AustraliaMA15+
Ireland15A
FranceU
ItalyT
Netherlands12
Spain
PortugalM/12
GreeceΚ-15
South Korea청소년 관람불가
USANR
Brazil16
Netherlands12
Greece
Germany12
Australia
Brazil
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
South Korea
Spain
USA
he just fucks their shit up and the ladies cry for me at the fuuuuneral, cause i ain't around no more to dicks that split up raw and shit and ma boys all gets faded pleasn' that skunk shit and fuck
I have been a teacher for some fifteen years now. I teach English here in the Netherlands and have worked at a variety of schools, ranging from schools in poor neighbourhoods with lower level education to a broad school community, with predominantly white middle to upper class kids. I've taught at the latter for the better part of my career so far.
Why all this background information? Well, two reasons. Firstly in order for me to bring across how I feel about this film, I need to tell something about my job and how I see it. Secondly to make clear that this film isn't about America, or the worrisome state of the American education system. I'll get to what…
you know what would make my 98 minutes of cynical misery porn and preachy bitterness work? the camera guy from the office
i too want to cook for sad adrien brody and sleep on his futon while he sleeps on the floor.
This is one of those moments when I realize how stupid it is to rate movies with a numerical score (which I did anyways because I have a weird obsessive compulsion to rate every movie I watch now).
It’s rare to encounter a movie that does so many things well and wrong at the same time. There were scenes that almost made me cry immediately followed by scenes that made me laugh out of how unintentionally funny they came off. Sometimes the strange editing worked wonderfully and some other times it felt gimmicky and repetitive and sooo on the nose. Sometimes the score was a perfect companion to what the movie was communicating, and a few scenes later I just…
I would also photograph and draw pictures of Adrian Brody if he were my substitute teacher
Aren't substitute teachers just supposed to put a movie on for the class and do nothing?
"We all have problems, we all have things that we're dealing with. Some days we're better than others, some days we're not so great. Sometimes we have limited space for others."
