Hannah Fidell’s 2013 feature debut, A Teacher, is a miniature portrait, practically a locket picture. Visually cramped, clammily atmospheric and undeniably underwritten, the 75-minute film — about a female high-school teacher (Lindsay Burdge) in a sexual relationship with one of her students (Will Brittain) — isn’t anyone’s idea of a slam-dunk adaptation source, grossing just over $8,000 during its theatrical run.
Indeed, it’s taken Fidell six years, since a TV version was announced for HBO in 2014, for her miniseries to make it to the screen, now for FX on Hulu.
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