4 stars ****
A thoroughly British movie excels in every way possible, one of the year’s best delights. As if to benefit even further we get to see a starring role from the most wonderful Carey Mulligan. Her acting presentation is so well performed we can be sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of this young lady in the future.
Quality screenplay writer Nick Hornby developed this writing from Lynn Barber’s memoirs which originally started life as a short piece of writing, but obviously with such a large and successful movie those memoirs now fill an entire book.
The blurb describes the story as:
When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car – and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery.
Dominic Cooper from Mamma Mia! and Rosamund Pike from James Bond put in bold appearances as ‘the other couple’ riding shotgun to Peter Sarsgaard and the brilliant Carey Mulligan. Their four distinctive characters blend so well, keeping substantial secrets from each other.
Nick Hornby’s screenplay gives Ms. Mulligan the most wonderful tools for her to present her craft. Actors can wait years to receive lines to perform in this manner. Quality lines; they don’t just come along every 20 minutes or so like some movies, they appear every time she opens her mouth to speak.
An Education is very typically British, with the attention to detail for early 1960s London, really first class. You can just feel yourself stepping back in time.
If you don’t get the chance to capture this movie at your local theater be sure to download, purchase or rent it on DVD. You won’t be sorry. In fact, you will be so delighted, you’ll take time for afternoon tea and cakes.
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