Like a tornado, she sweeps into the school and instantly upends everything, including Barbara. The entrance of the beautifully disheveled Sheba Hart changes everything. The performers sell the goods, but the goods are cheap. Blanchett are among the finest on the market today, and each can deliver expert performances, even when, as is the case here, their roles are false and hollow. (The composer for this film, doodle-doodle-doodle, is Philip Glass.) The actors in “Notes on a Scandal” are equally distinguished: Ms. The film’s director, Richard Eyre, ran the National Theater in London, and the screenwriter, Patrick Marber, wrote the play “Closer,” which became something of a bigger cultural event when Mike Nichols decided to transpose it to the screen. What is “Notes on a Scandal”? Well, for starters, it is a painstakingly classy package. Barbara wants Sheba, but what Sheba likes, wants and eventually gets is a 15-year-old boy with a downy chin and knowing smile. Blanchett’s Sheba, a married art teacher who has just joined her secondary school. Dench plays Barbara, an unmarried teacher with a dedicated fondness for vulnerable women of the sort personified by Ms. Based on the novel “What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal” by the British writer Zoë Heller, the film stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett as colleagues nearly undone by desire. The claws draw blood in “Notes on a Scandal,” a misanthropic game of cat and mouse from which no one emerges unscathed, including saps like us who think we’re watching a film about other people.
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