Films about fictitious great writers often stumble when it comes to the character’s actual writing: Viewers must suspend disbelief that a lofty literary reputation has been built on the purpl…
and screenwriter Alex MacKeith’s mutual debut feature interesting, even as it slides into occasional, overheated cliché.
A self-proclaimed prologue — kicking off a cutely apposite if mostly ornamental chaptered structure — introduces young writer Liam Sommers at a promotional Q&A for his acclaimed debut novel. “What exactly is it that drew you to tell this story?” asks the interviewer. Rather than taking the banality of the question as a cue for a “Tár”-like satire of toadying in the arts, “The Lesson” instead answers it with a brisk cut to the relatively recent past.
But something feels off from the moment he arrives at the property’s imposing iron gates, and not just because Sinclair — not altogether unusually for a brilliant, isolated novelist — turns out to be an aggressively frosty misanthrope.
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