You would never expect to laugh out loud if I told you the concept behind Bad Apples: A middle school teacher accidentally kidnaps and locks up one of her ten-year-old troublemakers in her basement after a particularly bad week. In fact, you might think that perhaps I'm misinterpreting the film. But the reality is that, despite an incredibly grim concept, Jonatan Etzler's first feature-length film is irresistibly laugh-out-loud funny. With Saoirse Ronan leading the film as Maria Spencer, a school teacher struggling after a bad breakup and with an unruly student in her class, Bad Apples takes a series of unfortunate events and watches it snowball out of control from one chaotic moment to the next. Etzler carefully walks the line, taking a dark subject and ratcheting up both the tension and the humor until the two are inextricably linked, making for an entertaining and unpredictably exciting debut.
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