“An Education” is fighting for three of the main Oscars
Jenny is 16 and lives in Twickenham, the working-class district of London. Quite conservative and dull is life like in the 60s. A chance to break for the like-able girl, from the post-war puritanism would be, “An Education”, an education, not just anybody, but in a prestigious university in Oxford.
The aim of the ambitious Jenny incessantly until you show a well -placed and good-looking older man (Peter Sarsgaard), a new world and a very different “training” enables . With “An Education”, the Danish director Lone Scherfig, a friendly and warm, but also cliched coming-of-age drama created to fight three of the main Oscars allowed.
Carey Mulligan, Oscar-nominated for her role, this Jenny. She is fantastic and changeable, a seeker who is one year longer than she can afford. Because Jenny is a master student, determined she is working towards her degree that will guarantee them entry into Oxford. Until they David (Peter Sarsgaard) met twice as a former playboy who makes her the court.
Jenny can be impressed by the new world into which she takes David. He invites you to fantastic concerts and exhibitions. Together with David’s friend Danny (Dominic Cooper) and his girlfriend Helen (Rosamund Pike), they spend the nights in chic cocktail bars and idleness. Opens up a great life, a new world, Jenny – the study and her big goal threatens to become an annoying reminder.
But let the Lone Scherfig and script -writer Nick Hornby not to: Jenny has to deal with them in their maturation process a lot of conflicts, changing from good girl to the attractive young woman who must realize that the glamorous life has its dark side. Credible, the above all by the great actress. In general Scherfig in filling a good hand has had. Especially with Jenny’s conservative parents: They are played with endearing awkwardness of Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour.
Times are changing, the white Jenny. It belongs to the generation that fought the stuffiness of the English post-war society slowly but firmly, and later celebrated by the “Swinging Sixties” – is itself in particular, but also the freedoms offered by the self-responsible life. The Lone Scherfig makes her sympathetic, clearly a little too complacent and sometimes cluttered feel-good film with nostalgic images and ground dialogues.
