Wednesday, August 25, 2010
GROWING UP
Today's film was
This is coming of age as a girl in the 70's. In England.
It is also the charming tale of a seduction by a 35 year old man of a 16 year old girl.
Charming? Well, yes. But not the seduction part. Charming is about the girl and how it all comes about that the same person that gets taken in by a cad is also the girl who can turn it around and make it work for her in her life.
There are a lot of good people in this film written by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity) based on the memoir of Lynn Barber
I knew when I saw it that it was a "real" story. You can't help wondering how the woman turned out. Very interesting as it happened.
I think that the success of the film is in its simplicity. No heavy shadows hover over it. There is a lot of funny stuff and then, close to the end, tears. It is not a comedy. It is a drama. A love story. A romance.
Carey Mulligann is who makes the charm and the cad is Peter Sarsgaard. The always welcome Alfred Molina plays the comic and tender ranting father.
Everyone liked this. I liked it too. I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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