We're in England in 1962 where a bright, very pretty and talented school girl faces the choice -- does she decide to run off to Paris, have fun looking around galleries, go out to jazz recitals and eat in fab restaurants with a handsome and dashing older man . . . or continue on to Oxford in preparation for a life that's hard and boring? The older man is played by American actor Peter Sarsgaart. I've seen him recently in a couple of war movies: "Rendition" and "Jarhead". Here he plays the smooth Brit role very convincingly riding around in his "Bristol", but he is a bit too old for the part. Jenny, nicely played by Carey Mulligan, is just a sixteen. But she's too intelligent and finely cultured to be seriously attracted to a forty year old man, no matter how smooth and rich he may be. And to believe that the man would be so easily accepted by the girl's parents is certainly stretching credibility. Didn't matter though as it was obvious from the outset, and from the movie's title, that this was "An Education". And that the relationship would be short and not so sweet.
Directed by Lone Scherfig, UK 2009 7/10
We're in England in 1962 where a bright, very pretty and talented school girl faces the choice -- does she decide to run off to Paris, have fun looking around galleries, go out to jazz recitals and eat in fab restaurants with a handsome and dashing older man . . . or continue on to Oxford in preparation for a life that's hard and boring? The older man is played by American actor Peter Sarsgaart. I've seen him recently in a couple of war movies: "Rendition" and "Jarhead". Here he plays the smooth Brit role very convincingly riding around in his "Bristol", but he is a bit too old for the part. Jenny, nicely played by Carey Mulligan, is just a sixteen. But she's too intelligent and finely cultured to be seriously attracted to a forty year old man, no matter how smooth and rich he may be. And to believe that the man would be so easily accepted by the girl's parents is certainly stretching credibility. Didn't matter though as it was obvious from the outset, and from the movie's title, that this was "An Education". And that the relationship would be short and not so sweet.
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