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.
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