Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Wonderful character development!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

An odd exploration of art and artist, The Kindergarten Teacher's most notable contribution may be its camerawork...which is almost a character in and of itself. The plot lags, the characters perplex, but the questions persist. It is not a flawless film, but it sure is interesting. And hard not to watch.

A well informed, well acted character study of somebody who is misunderstood, and of somebody who is misunderstanding. maurice is five years old, and something of an enigma: he enjoys the normal pursuits of a healthy five year old, but he also writes poetry that is way beyond his years, and exhibits a level of empathy that many adults are incapable of. His Kindergarten teacher is a wannabe poet who can't find her core. In spotting his talent, she is at the same time jealous and protective of it.

The other is the spectator. You may be tempted to say that the film is incomplete for its pessimistic ending, as truth spans the time, when clearly you have to complete it yourself. Just as the teacher has to complete her purpose. Apparently the film tries to tell us that the immaterial has no match in value for the social mentality against the material pursuit. But the author uses the duality of the teacher and the child, of its creation and the audience to create connotation. Duality means one. The teacher and the kid are one. She behaves that way. In such a subtle manner when she takes the kid's poems as her own. "What is love?" trying to prepare the kid. The teacher knows, but she is not. She is the reasoning, the will, the courage. "I don't know" candidly replies to the teacher. The kid does not know, but he is. He is the poet, the poetry, the face of love."Si senor, co-ro-na de cris-ta-les (yeah, yeah, yeah)" is just how the film spectacularly sustains the failure to save such an invisible treasure.

The premise for The Kindergarten Teacher is a strange one in which a 5-year-old student of the titular character is a prodigy poet, and his teacher attempts to give him a better life. The primary subject of this film is this teacher's clear, unhealthy obsession with this child, which we never fully come to understand, but it is extremely unsettling.Early in the film we see this teacher attend what seems to be a class on poetry, and she uses various poems by the young child in her kindergarten group as her own work. It is unclear whether this is to make sure the child's poems have merit or if it is to simply submit something to class as her own work. These poems seem to be impromptu, but it is clear as the film goes on that at least some planning or method is behind what he "writes" since he will pace back and forth and then announce he has a poem and start to recite it.The teacher is a hypocrite since she criticizes the child's nanny for reciting his poems in auditions while she herself is also using the poems as described in the previous paragraph. Eventually the teacher makes the situation more about the child than about her, bringing him to a poetry seminar of sorts in order for him to be noticed by people who will actually appreciate him for what he does, unlike the boy's father who the teacher disagrees with.What makes this film intriguing is the state of desperation the titular character delves into as she becomes more and more involved in the boy's life. The actress playing the teacher plays the part with a cold, emotionless demeanor, suggesting she needs or wants a child in her life as she is lifted up around the boy. Towards the end of the film, there are clearly so many insecurities in her character as she is in a deteriorating state of mind, and this is the main strong point of the film.3.0/4.0