The Lesson (2023 film)

The Lesson
Film poster
Directed byAlice Troughton
Written byAlex MacKeith
Produced byCamille Gatin
Cassandra Sigsgaard
Judy Tossell
Fabien Westerhoff
StarringRichard E. Grant
Julie Delpy
Daryl McCormack
CinematographyAnna Patarakina
Edited byPaulo Pandolpho
Music byIsobel Waller-Bridge
Production
companies
Poison Chef
Egoli Tossell
Jeva Films
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Focus Features
Release dates
  • June 11, 2023 (2023-06-11) (Tribeca)
  • September 22, 2023 (2023-09-22) (United Kingdom and Ireland)
Running time
103 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$310,746[2][3]

The Lesson is a 2023 British psychological thriller film written by Alex MacKeith, directed by Alice Troughton and starring Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack.

In the way that the movie is structured, it is similar to a play: there are only five key characters and almost the entire story takes place in one location.

The story is centred on the interaction between the four main characters: an Oxford student employed as a tutor by a wealthy family living in a mansion in the countryside; the teenage son who will be tutored by the Oxford student; and, finally, the son’s parents, who are a famous British writer and his French wife, an artist. The family employs a near-silent and enigmatic butler, who is the fifth character: the person who sees everything but says nothing.

  1. ^ "The Lesson (15)". British Board of Film Classification. September 4, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  2. ^ "The Lesson (2023)". The Numbers. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
  3. ^ "The Lesson (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 21, 2023.