Saw 'An Education'......

[FAST FRED]

.....starring Best Actress nominee Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina and I enjoyed it.

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Kind of a mashup in my mind of "Bridget Jones's Dairy" and "Alfie" which really doesn't have that much in common with either of those flicks except being again a London setting wherein a naive British bird and a lousy cad have an affair leading to her disillusion, regret and comeuppance but possibly a more experienced, happy future.

Miss Mulligan is excellent as a modern (1960s), but more misguided, "My Fair Lady" without a chaperone.

Alfred Molina, who I discovered was born in working class London of a Spanish father and trained in Great Britain's Royal National Theater, is memorable here as her father after being Spiderman II's Doc Ock.

Your thoughts?

 

[RomaVicta]

Saw it tonight. Thought is was very fine. The girl in the lead is good as is everyone else. I loved that the perspectives were not cut and dried nor were they simple. As the story and relationship go on, every character gets their third dimension.

And it's a good story. Loved the look and design of the movie as well. I can't imagine someone seeing this movie and not liking it.