Movie #153 "An Education" is yet another movie that has been nominated for academy awards (acting, best picture and writing), and it is deserving, but it won't win any of them, I don't think. Not that it isn't worthy, because it is oscar-worthy; although it is pretty plain and covers the same ground many films cover, it is done competently, and the acting is superb, esp. the lead, Carey Mulligan - it's her movie and she holds her own, even with the likes of Emma Thompson and Alfred Molina. The film has a good script (penned by Nick Hornby) , beautiful 60s costumes, & nice looking Paris and London locations. But this year with explosives and blue folk, the academy will hardly notice. Consider it lucky it got a nomination, and it is a movie you want to see on the subject of how important education is to a person's life. And what kind of education should we be talking about.
Average rating: 3.946
I gave it 4 stars
An Education
(2008) PG-13
Jenny's (Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan) Oxford-bound teen life is undistinguished in 1961 London until she's given a different kind of education after being immersed in the beguiling but hazardous world of cultured and much-older David (Peter Sarsgaard). Even Jenny's father, Jack (Alfred Molina), is intrigued by him, but her school's unimpressed headmistress (Emma Thompson) works to keep Jenny's entire future from crumbling under David's influence.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment