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Release
Date: Out Now
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Stars :
Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina
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Director: Lone Scherfig
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Production
Company: BBC Films
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Screenplay:
Nick Hornby
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Running
Time:
95
Mins
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Synopsis
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1961. London.16-year old school girl Jenny (Carey Mulligan) gets swept off her feet by a suave older man, David (Peter Sarsgaard), who also manages to charm her staid parents (Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour). To the envy of her classmates, she is taken into a world of smoky bars and supper clubs-only to realize eventually that not everything is as it seems. |
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Verdict
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Based on a memoir by Lynn Barber, “An Education” is an education in intelligent, beautifully observed film-making. Wonderfully recreating the times between post-war austerity and the start of the Swinging Sixties, director Lone Scherfig paints a picture of a girl on the cusp of womanhood who is temporarily blinded to the realities of what is around her. Heading up a superb cast, Carey Mulligan handles a complicated part with a sureness of touch that bowls you over with it’s brilliance. Alfred Molina (as her Father) and Rosamund Pike (as one of her new social circle) also deliver wonderful performances. But it is Nick Hornby’s brilliant script which dazzles the most. A sure-fire certainty for Oscar and BAFTA glory, “An Education” is simply sublime. |
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