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Hungarian director B\u00e1lint Szimler\u2019s first narrative feature <\/span>Lesson Learned<\/span><\/i>, which was awarded at Locarno, takes an interesting approach to the honoured tradition of the school picture. The genre has seen many winning additions in recent years, including Norway\u2019s <\/span>Beware of Children <\/span><\/i>(Midnight Sun 2024), Belgium\u2019s<\/span> Playground<\/span><\/i> (Midnight Sun 2022)<\/span> and Germany\u2019s <\/span>The Teacher\u2019s Lounge<\/span><\/i>. Like its predecessors, <\/span>Lesson Learned<\/span><\/i> delves into topics far beyond school. The independent production that faced financing difficulties in \u201cOrban\u2019s\u201d Hungary builds into what can be seen as a metaphor for the country\u2019s seemingly hopeless current situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Palk\u00f3, a quiet ten-year-old foreign student from Berlin, and the school\u2019s other new arrival, the idealistic literature teacher Juci, both struggle and feel like outsiders in the oppressive school milieu \u2013 observing them, it is difficult not to reflect upon the society that surrounds them. According to Szimler, in current Hungary, teacher wages are extremely low, education reforms are forbidden, and headmasters are being laid off. The director utilizes a mostly amateur cast and lauded cinematographer Marcell R\u00e9vi\u2019s 16mm photography to portray, in an almost claustrophobic way, how problems go unaddressed, \u201cstrange\u201d ideas are resisted and dissidents defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Timo Malmi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungarian director B\u00e1lint Szimler\u2019s first narrative feature Lesson Learned, which was awarded at Locarno, takes an interesting approach to the honoured tradition of the school picture. The genre has seen many winning additions in recent years, including Norway\u2019s Beware of Children (Midnight Sun 2024), Belgium\u2019s Playground (Midnight Sun 2022) and Germany\u2019s The Teacher\u2019s Lounge. 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