Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
Directed by Rodrigo Cortés
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math teacher
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teacher student relationship
troubled teen
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art teacher
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Cast
AnnaSophia Robb
Kit
Uma Thurman
Madame Duret
Isabelle Fuhrman
Izzy
Victoria Moroles
Veronica
Noah Silver
Jules
Taylor Russell
Ashley
Rosie Day
Sierra
Rebecca Front
Miss Orlonsky
Jodhi May
Heather Sinclair
Pip Torrens
Professor Farley
Kirsty Mitchell
Ginny
Jim Sturgeon
Dave
Crew
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
Chris Sparling
Writer
Michael Goldbach
Writer
Rodrigo Cortés
Editor
Jarin Blaschke
Director of Photography
Stephenie Meyer
Producer
Wyck Godfrey
Producer
Adrián Guerra
Producer
Marty Bowen
Producer
Rodrigo Cortés
Music Producer
José A. Manovel
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Víctor Reyes
Music
Popular Reviews
45 reviews
Blue
9.0★ · 01/15/26
The piano teacher should have been the one who jumped. I agree, the ending was not great but still it was a fun watch
The piano teacher should have been the one who jumped. I agree, the ending was not great but still it was a fun watch
I was actually finding this somewhat enjoyable until the final act kicked in and everything went completely off the rails. The cinematography and sets were both surprisingly beautiful the whole way through, and Anna Sophia Robb was a strong lead. The rest of her schoolmates, however, felt like afterthoughts that we never really got to know. The “mysterious boarding school for wayward girls” premise gets a decent enough setup going in the first half of the runtime, but around the halfway mark, things start dragging and the whole movie begins to feel much longer than it actually is. Maybe it was bad editing, maybe it was studio interference and forced reshoots, or maybe it was just Uma Thurman’s horrid excuse for a French accent slowly driving me insane, but I was ultimately left confused and disappointed by a grand finale that felt horribly detached from the rest of the storyline. Overall, not one I’d recommend!
I was actually finding this somewhat enjoyable until the final act kicked in and everything went completely off the rails. The cinematography and sets were both surprisingly beautiful the whole way through, and Anna Sophia Robb was a strong lead. The rest of her schoolmates, however, felt like afterthoughts that we never really got to know. The “mysterious boarding school for wayward girls” premise gets a decent enough setup going in the first half of the runtime, but around the halfway mark, things start dragging and the whole movie begins to feel much longer than it actually is. Maybe it was bad editing, maybe it was studio interference and forced reshoots, or maybe it was just Uma Thurman’s horrid excuse for a French accent slowly driving me insane, but I was ultimately left confused and disappointed by a grand finale that felt horribly detached from the rest of the storyline. Overall, not one I’d recommend!
