{"id":2291884,"date":"2026-02-20T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291884"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:39:36","slug":"the-education-of-jane-cumming-review-a-compelling-dramatization-of-the-true-story-behind-the-childrens-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-education-of-jane-cumming-review-a-compelling-dramatization-of-the-true-story-behind-the-childrens-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Education of Jane Cumming\u2019 Review: A Compelling Dramatization of the True Story Behind \u2018The Children\u2019s Hour\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lillian Hellman<\/a>\u2019s landmark 1934 play \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour<\/a>\u201d has twice been adapted for the big screen, both times by director William Wyler<\/a>, and neither film really did right by it. The Hays Code could be blamed for the absurdly straightwashed watering-down of the 1936 version \u201cThese Three,\u201d and while 1961\u2019s \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour<\/a>\u201d could be more open about the same-sex attraction driving its tragedy of ruinous gossip, it was still timidly ginger around the subject. In her handsome, stirring sophomore feature \u201cThe Education of Jane Cumming<\/a>,\u201d German filmmaker Sophie Heldman<\/a> bypasses the Hellman play entirely to shed light on the real-life 19th-century case that inspired it \u2014 a tale defined not just by societal homophobia but colonial-era racism.<\/p>\n

The result is easily the most satisfying screen outing yet for this story material: a classically well-made and affectingly performed period drama that should enjoy a long festival run after its premiere in Berlin\u2019s Panorama program,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lillian Hellman\u2019s landmark 1934 play \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d has twice been adapted for the big screen, both times by director William Wyler, and neither film really did right by it. The Hays Code could be blamed for the absurdly straightwashed watering-down of the 1936 version \u201cThese Three,\u201d and while 1961\u2019s \u201cThe Children\u2019s Hour\u201d could be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018The-Education-of-Jane-Cumming-Review-A-Compelling-Dramatization-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291886,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291884\/revisions\/2291886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}