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Review: An Education

An Education
When we meet Jenny (Carey Mulligan), she lives a regimented existence of Latin homework and lectures from her father (Alfred Molina) about the importance of getting the grades to make it to Oxford University. This is 1960s Britain and the education Jenny and her peers receive shows them how to bake cakes and walk in a straight line with a book balanced on their heads.

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6 comments.
Nick
Posted by Nick at 06:26 on 17/07/10
Disappointing, I was hoping it would offer something different from the standard "schoolgirl falls for an older guy, big mistake" thing I've seen a hundred times before. Really the only thing I enjoyed and was left thinking about after was the theme and reference to my mate Camus (left) and that I should read a bit more. Otherwise the film offered me nothing new.
Goatboy
Posted by Goatboy at 15:13 on 29/10/09
Meh
Her & Orlando Bloom, 2 people that have tried to be stars but fail miserably. They work best in the background/supporting as they aren't interesting/talented enough to be the main attraction. Bloom was alright in Lord of The Rings and alright in the Pirates films, but wasn't the reason anybody went.
And he managed to sink a Cameron Crowe film, which is really hard to do.
Knightly? Domino...have you seen that thing?
Unless she's fey and gazes longingly over moorlands, nobody gives a shit.
Just because they were in popular films, doesn't mean they were anything to do with the success of those movies.
Ali
Posted by Ali at 12:47 on 29/10/09
Because she's posh and gets her tits out. If you can call them that.

*misogynist hi-5*
Goatboy
Posted by Goatboy at 05:37 on 29/10/09
No doubt a good movie but does nothing for me. Which is cool, I'm not the demographic and it's nice to see a movie for grown ups. Was thinking all the way through the review "so Keira Knightly was busy is another period drama huh?". Really don't get her appeal, one note posh kid that cannot carry a movie herself unless it's a Sunday night type drama.
Nick
Posted by Nick at 00:07 on 29/10/09
I've been hearing good things about this and it's definitely something I'll watch at some point.
Ali
Posted by Ali at 23:40 on 28/10/09
I'd really like to see this, even if Carey Mulligan sounds like a really pretentious American golfer with stupid trousers and a bad wig.

Peter Saaaaarsgaaaard = vowel thief. Him and his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal must be trying to start their own alphabet.
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