![]() It has a juicy subject, too: one of those everyday catastrophes when a female high school teacher is discovered having an affair with a male student. It is also one of the most enjoyable movies of the old year. Thus Notes on a Scandal bears comparison to Strangers on a Train as a story of unwitting psychopathia. The empathy-deprived often think of themselves as characters in a story. The masterfully sardonic Notes on a Scandal gives Dench her chance to play a stalker the lady cloaks her manipulativeness in what she believes is literary detachment. We get little doses, when she bullies James Bond or plays one or another formidable queen of England. Since she got older, Dench's great capacity for emotional brutality, the reservoir of sadistic pride in that drawling yet clipped voice, has never really been tapped lately. JUDI DENCH has been badly typecast as crusty but cozy Britons.
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