Tournées Fest: "Mrs. Hyde"

This loose adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde transplants Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale to a high school in a tough Paris suburb and infuses it with a surprising mix of B-movie chills, dry humor, and contemporary reality. Isabelle Huppert stars as the meek but devoted physics teacher Mme. Géquil, a helpless idealist who undergoes an explosive transformation after being struck by lightning in her makeshift lab. (...) While Mrs. Hyde provides an unflinching, at time uncomfortable view of the challenges currently facing the French nation and its school system, its most powerful aspect may lie in its earnest belief in the power of education: indeed, this is a film that manages to turn a geometry lesson into a thrilling, profoundly moving cinematic moment.