The Lesson (2023)

Aspiring author Liam takes a live-in position as a tutor for the son of a revered novelist. The son is dismissive and difficult, the wife -- an artist and curator -- is aloof and melancholy, and the novelist is petty and demanding. Liam absorbs and adapts and makes himself useful to all of them.

Though I've seen this type of closed-system family with an outsider before (Saltburn comes to mind), I found this to be mesmerizing and unpredictable. Each of the players were three-dimensional with both personality and agenda. The eventual end was both surprising and satisfying.

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