Jenny is a very intelligent 16 year old girl in high school, her goal is to enter in Oxford so she is studying hard to get there. Meanwhile she meets a very charming men in his 30's, he starts to seduce her but not just her, her parents too. Her parents that once wanted her to get the best education possible are now also enchanted with this very pleasent men that seems to be the perfect future for her daughter. But things turn not to be that easy and Jenny also starts to question her goals. She is not so sure anymore about education values.
I didn't know much about this story, I actually wanted to see it because of Carey Mulligan and I am for seeing it pretty much since it came out. I think she is a fine actress, liked to see her in everything she had done so far and that was the main reason.
As I predicted Carey Mulligan gives a strong performance in this film, I think she is those kind of actress that does not even need to speak. She can speak through her eyes and facial expressions and she can transmit a lot to us without saying any word.
The rest of the performances are all strong and it always lovely too see Emma Thompson even if it's just for a little role as a headmistress.
Although this is a lovely coming-of-age story about destroyed dreams and childish fantasies of what is being an adult I thought that I would see some more depth in it and I didn't felt that certain depth in the story. Of course it has a point, a message but I was already predicting how it was going to end and what the lesson after all would be. I was always waiting for something special but nothing really different popped up. I think I would rather seen a more dramatic end and not the pretty one.
Overall, An Education is not great but not bad. It's an okay story lightened by strong performances.
This movie would absolutely not work without Carey Mulligan’s heartbreakingly mature performance. The plot contrivances are quite silly in parts (the father character in particular, wonderful as Alfred Molina is), but Mulligan is an absolute revelation. She doesn’t underplay her young age and she doesn’t overplay her character’s relative maturity. Her performance alone really moves this movie up on my list.
This movie shows a world different from the one I live in. Parents of a high school girl have NO reaction when a man 30 to 40 year old looking comes to take their daughter out.
I can only imagine what it must have been like for parents when Michael Jackson would call their home and ask to speak to their young sons late a night. It was probably the same non reaction.
Sooo typical. I’ve seen this story a thousand times.
The Lover is a far superior telling of the same story. I kept wanting Peter Saarsgaard to be some other actor, someone more chiseled, someone younger looking. I don’t buy that he doesn’t look like most of her friends’ fathers. Anyway, it was okay. Watch The Lover.
Available at the Urbana Free Library.
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This is another perfect example of an unbelievable movie that flew under the radar. An Education is about a 16 year old girl that falls for an older gentleman. I know, this story has been done before (even though it is a rather strict interpretation of a true story). The beauty in this film is the story that surrounds the affair. I wish I could do it justice but you'll have to watch the film to understand.
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