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An Education (2008)
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Writer Nick Hornby's outstanding adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's coming-of-age memoir is a wonderful celebration of teenage intellectual and sexual curiosity. Set in a perfectly evoked pre-Swinging Sixties suburban London, it tells of the bittersweet emotional journey taken by a sheltered, “all things French”-loving schoolgirl (Carey Mulligan), who jeopardises a place at Oxford for the opportunities of the “University of Life” offered by a man twice her age (the charmingly manipulative Peter Sarsgaard). Director Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners) brings the lightest touch and sureness of insights to a film that is smartly observant, fabulously funny (Alfred Molina's stuffy father, Rosamund Pike's bimbo socialite) and delightfully non-judgemental. Mulligan's astonishing, knowing performance in particular captures an era's changing attitudes over female opportunity in the moment that British postwar austerity gave way to the excitement of Beatlemania. AJ
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Running time
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99min
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Country of origin
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UK / US
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Genre
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Coming-of-age Drama
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Nick Hornby, from the memoir by Lynn Barber
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Theatrical distributor
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E1 Entertainment
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UK cinema certificate
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12A
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UK cinema release date
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October 2009
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