An EducationIt's 1961 and Jenny (Carey Mulligan, in an Oscar-nominated role) is a bright, attractive 16 year-old schoolgirl champing at the bit to grow up and lead a sophisticated, literary life - preferably in Paris, as opposed to Twickenham, where she lives with her well-meaning if predictably conservative parents.
When a patently unsuitable suitor presents himself in the form of thirtysomething David (Peter Sarsgaard), Jenny's academic ambitions risk being sidelined by the promise of more exciting - and immediate - life experiences.
Based on the memoir by British journalist Lynn Barber, Danish director Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself) elicits wonderfully nuanced performances from a superb cast that also features Alfred Molina (as Jenny's impressionable father) and Emma Thompson (as the headmistress at Jenny's school).
