Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Run time: 95 min
Let me see, a teenage girl has a special relationship with a 40 something man. That will make Optimus Prime squirms with fear wouldn't it?
Based on journalist Lynn Barber's book (I haven't read the book), this film is set in 1961 England. A bright 16 year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smitten with the 40 year old David (Peter Sarsgaard). Jenny's parents are a bit overprotective but naive, they wanted their only daughter to go to Oxford.
It is logical since Jenny is smart, likes French movies and songs, avid fans of culture and sophisticated. How many 16 year old are as sophisticated as Jenny? Perhaps Lindsay Lohan is sophisticated but the last time I check she wasn't 16 anymore.
David takes Jenny to the world she could ever dream of, to fancy restaurants, cinemas, concerts, play, dog race and painting auction. David's sophistication satiates Jenny's intellectual hunger which cannot be fulfilled by her peers.
David can also charm's Jenny's naive parents up to a level taking Jenny to Paris. But if things are too good to be true, it actually aren't and the so called rude awakening makes Jenny more mature, thus, his tumultuous relationship with David has given her an education of its own.
The delicacy of this film is in the dialogue, it is sharp, witty and quotable, filled with questions unasked and moral uneasiness. This film is an education for naive women who easily charmed by well mannered men and a lesson for us all, that there is no instant way to be mature, it all need a process.
Based on journalist Lynn Barber's book (I haven't read the book), this film is set in 1961 England. A bright 16 year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smitten with the 40 year old David (Peter Sarsgaard). Jenny's parents are a bit overprotective but naive, they wanted their only daughter to go to Oxford.
It is logical since Jenny is smart, likes French movies and songs, avid fans of culture and sophisticated. How many 16 year old are as sophisticated as Jenny? Perhaps Lindsay Lohan is sophisticated but the last time I check she wasn't 16 anymore.
David takes Jenny to the world she could ever dream of, to fancy restaurants, cinemas, concerts, play, dog race and painting auction. David's sophistication satiates Jenny's intellectual hunger which cannot be fulfilled by her peers.
David can also charm's Jenny's naive parents up to a level taking Jenny to Paris. But if things are too good to be true, it actually aren't and the so called rude awakening makes Jenny more mature, thus, his tumultuous relationship with David has given her an education of its own.
The delicacy of this film is in the dialogue, it is sharp, witty and quotable, filled with questions unasked and moral uneasiness. This film is an education for naive women who easily charmed by well mannered men and a lesson for us all, that there is no instant way to be mature, it all need a process.
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