"As she proudly professes, Sousatzka not only teaches musicology, but life itself as well, and she is not malleable of her disciplines, particularly regarding when Manek will be ready for public performance, problems arise when Manek is approached by producer Ronnie (Lawson) to arrange his debut performance, and a rival music teacher Leo (Rietty) may have his own design on snatching Manek under his tutelage. But, what director John Schlesinger flintily homes in on is that their extant teacher-student rapport is already insalubrious, it is the overflowing maternal affection Manek receiving on a daily basis from two "mothers" that drives him away from Sousatzka, the sad truth is that it is a lesson the latter fails to learn from, and Manek is simply not the first."
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