Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka (1988)

  • 75% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (293 ratings)

Shirley MacLaine is Madame Sousatzka, an aging piano instructor of Russian extraction. Entrenched in a dilapidated London rooming house, the Madame gives lessons only to the most gifted. She does not stop at mere instruction; Sousatzka insists that her pupils conduct their lives in the same genteel,… More

PG-13, 2 hr. 2 min.
Directed By
John Schlesinger
Written By
Peter Morgan, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Genres
Musical & Performing Arts, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 14, 1988 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    It's as affectionate, big-hearted and creaky as any film that ever graced Radio City Music Hall, with leisureliness and dime-store philosophizing to match.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    An intimate and amusing adaptation of Bernice Rubens' novel.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    As charming and fanciful as it is impossible to pigeonhole.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    An extraordinary movie that loves music and loves the people it is about, and has the patience to do justice to both.

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    One of MacLaine's strongest, most colorful roles

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