If you loved Love in the Time of Cholera, try Mona Lisa Smile

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Mike Newell, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Love in the Time of Cholera, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Mona Lisa Smile is

Wellesley College, 1953, a lecture hall filled with daughters of privilege. A UCLA graduate teaches art history, her students bound for marriage, not careers. Mike Newell contextualizes 50s feminism through academia.

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