Private Lessons
Alternative title: Élève libre

Directed by Joachim Lafosse

A promising tennis player finds mentorship and solace amid family turmoil.

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Private Lessons is a deliberately uncomfortable Belgian drama about a teenager’s relationship with an older tutor and the blurred boundaries between education, intimacy and exploitation. Joachim Lafosse refuses easy moral reassurance, and the film’s restraint makes its ethical tension all the more unsettling.

Private Lessons

Alternative title: Élève libre

Directed by Joachim Lafosse

A promising tennis player finds mentorship and solace amid family turmoil.

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Private Lessons is a deliberately uncomfortable Belgian drama about a teenager’s relationship with an older tutor and the blurred boundaries between education, intimacy and exploitation. Joachim Lafosse refuses easy moral reassurance, and the film’s restraint makes its ethical tension all the more unsettling.