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Though the latter part of the film may not appeal to all, An Education is a charming coming-of-age tale powered by the strength of relative newcomer Carey Mulligan's standout performance.

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Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard in "An Education."

"An Education" tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who is the target of a sophisticated seduction by a 35-year-old man. This happens in 1961, when 16-year-old girls were a great deal less knowing than they are now. Yet the movie isn't shabby or painful, but romantic and wonderfully entertaining.

It depends on a British actress named Carey Mulligan , who in her first major feature role is being compared by everyone with Audrey Hepburn . When you see her, you can't think of anyone else to compare her with. She makes the role luminous when it could have been sad or awkward. She has such lightness and grace, you're pretty sure this is the birth of a star.

All very well and good, you're thinking, but how is this film a romance? Oh, it's not so much a romance between the teenager and the middle-aged man. That only advances to the level of an infatuation. It's a romance between the girl, named Jenny, and the possibilities within her, the future before her, and the joy of being alive. Yes, she sheds a few tears. But she gets better than she gives, and in hindsight, this has been a valuable experience for her.

But wait? Doesn't this girl have parents? She certainly does. Jack and Marjorie ( Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour ) are proper, traditional middle-class parents in the London suburb of Twickenham, and there's nothing but love in the home. They aren't wealthy or worldly, but they wish the best for their girl and are bursting with pride that she's won a scholarship to Oxford. Then she springs David ( Peter Sarsgaard ) on them.

This is a smooth operator. He sees her standing at a bus stop in the rain, holding her cello case. He offers her a lift in his sports car. He engages her in conversation about classical music. He "happens" to run into her again, and they have a nice chat. He wonders if she might enjoy...

You see how it goes. He opens a door she eagerly wants to enter, to concerts, plays, restaurants, double dates with his fascinating friends, talk about the great world when the boys at school have nothing to say. At some point, it must become clear to her that he intends to sleep with her if he can, but by now she's thinking that he very possibly can.

I forgot to tell you about her parents. They dote and protect, but are very naive. David is good-looking, well-dressed, well-spoken and very, very polite. He has "taken an interest" in Jenny because, why? He is impressed by this young woman's mind and enjoys sharing his advantages. He offers implicit guarantees of her safety, and they're so proud of her, they believe a wealthy older man would be interested for purely platonic motives. They're innocents. Jenny will be safe with him for a weekend in Paris -- because he has an aunt who lives there and will be her chaperone?

Paris! The city embodies Jenny's wildest dreams! And to see it with a worldly dreamboat like David, instead of going there on the boat-train with a grotty, pimply 17-year-old! Is she cynically taking advantage of David for her own motives? Well, yes. Now close your eyes and remember your teens and tell me you don't forgive her at least a little.

Part of the genius of "An Education" is that it unfolds this relationship at a deliberate pace. Sarsgaard plays an attractive, intelligent companion. He is careful to keep a distance. Must be a good trout fisherman. To some degree, he's truthful: He enormously enjoys this smart, pretty girl. He loves walking along the Seine with her. He knows things about the world that she eagerly welcomes.

Yes, he's also a rotter, a bounder, a cad, a dirty rotten scoundrel. But you can't get far in any of those trades if you're not also a charmer. To some degree, Jenny welcomes being deceived. The screenplay by Nick Hornby (" About a Boy " and " High Fidelity ") is based on a memoir by a real person, the British journalist Lynn Barber. It became well-known in the U.K. that when she was 16, she had a two-year affair with a man named Simon in his late 30s.

There are many scene-by-scene parallels between book and movie, and much closely adapted dialogue. We know that Lynn Barber is smart and that she was pretty when she was 16. But her affair wasn't such a great experience, at least not in its second year. What transforms it in "An Education" is Mulligan, who has that rare gift of enlisting us on her side and making us like her. She's so lovable that whatever happens must be somehow for Jenny's benefit. She glows.

So young women, let this movie offer useful advice. When a man seems too good to be true, he probably isn't -- good, or true. We all make mistakes when we're growing up. Sometimes we learn from them. If we're lucky, we can even learn during them. And you must certainly see Paris. Do not count on meeting the aunt.

Barber writes: "What did I get from Simon? An education -- the thing my parents always wanted me to have... I learned about expensive restaurants and luxury hotels and foreign travel, I learned about antiques and Bergman films and classical music. But actually there was a much bigger bonus than that. My experience with Simon entirely cured my craving for sophistication. By the time I got to Oxford, I wanted nothing more than to meet kind, decent, straightforward boys my own age, no matter if they were gauche or virgins. I would marry one eventually and stay married all my life and for that, I suppose, I have Simon to thank."

Lynn Barber's full account: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/07/lynn-barber-virginity-relationships

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A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
In the early 1960's, sixteen-year-old Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan) lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father Jack's (Alfred Molina's) wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than him. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working, but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham (Matthew Beard), who is nice, but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman (Peter Sarsgaard), a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and Helen (Rosamund Pike), have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move on to becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association, Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher education at Oxford. — Huggo
Jenny (Mulligan) is a bright young girl on the cusp of 17 who finds herself in a whirlwind romance with the much older David (Sarsgaard). Once she sees the lifestyle David can provide, one she never imagined might so easily be hers, she is hooked. Thoughts of prep school and one day attending Oxford fly out the window.
London, 1960s. Jenny is a bright, pretty teen with the world at her feet. There's no shortage of potential boyfriends. Along comes Peter, a man significantly older than her, who sweeps her off her feet with his wealth, possessions and knowledge. — grantss
In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan) is a 16-year-old schoolgirl on track to get accepted to Oxford University. Her studies are controlled by her strict father, Jack (Alfred Molina). Her parents (Mother Marjorie (Cara Seymour)) are conservative & want the best for her. They trust Jenny completely & give her the freedom to live her life the way she wants. But her parents are very disapproving of all the class boys that Jenny brings to her home. Jenny's dad likes people who know what they want to be doing in life. He appreciates Jenny for her focus on getting into Oxford & hence automatically disapproves of any young man who comes into their home & says that they aren't sure of what they want to be doing next in life. He calls them "teddy boy". After youth orchestra rehearsals, Jenny waits at a bus stop on the street in heavy rain when David Goldman (Peter Sarsgaard), an older man stops his Bristol 405 and tells her that he is a music lover and is worried about her cello getting wet, and he convinces Jenny to put her cello in his car while she walks alongside. As the rain becomes heavier, Jenny asks David if she can sit inside the car. The two talk about music and, before being dropped off, Jenny confides that she is looking forward to attending university and being able to live a life of culture, doing things such as going to art galleries and watching French films. The following week, David has flowers delivered to Jenny's house, wishing her luck at her youth orchestra's concert. Later, she sees him in town and approaches him. David asks Jenny if she is free to go and see a concert and have supper with him and his friends. She happily agrees and thanks him. On the night of the concert, Jack disapproves of Jenny going, but when David comes by to pick up Jenny, he easily charms Jack into letting him take Jenny and bring her home later than her normal curfew. David introduces Jenny to his equally charming friends, including a lady by the name of Helen (Rosamund Pike) who ends up becoming a mentor to Jenny in the grown-up group of David's. Jenny is smitten by the high lifestyle of effortless elegance of Helen & wants to emulate her. Danny (Dominic Cooper) is Helen's "boyfriend" & by the looks of it is enormously wealthy. Danny & David are friends with each other. David, Helen and Danny seem to hang out together for too often. Finding she is also interested in art, they invite Jenny to an art auction. David picks up Jenny at school and they go to the auction, winning a bid for a painting by Edward Burne-Jones and going to Danny's place afterwards. Jenny starts spending a lot of time with this group & her grades start slipping at school. David even manages to convince Jenny's parents to send her away on a weekend trip with him on the pretext of a chance meeting with a famous author Clive Lewis (one of Jenny's favorites who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia) who is currently visiting Oxford. That night David acts as gentleman with Jenny & doesn't force her into sleeping with him, although there is fondling. Jenny then shows a signed copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to her parents (in fact signed by David, as they had never met Lewis). Impressed by David's connections and charisma, Jack and Marjorie approve of their romantic relationship. Later, Jenny discovers that David is a con man who makes money through a variety of shady practices. She is initially shocked but silences her misgivings in the face of David's persuasive charm. Soon, David takes Jenny to Paris as a 17th birthday gift. Jenny's parents invite Graham (Matthew Beard), a boy Jenny knows from Youth Orchestra to Jenny's birthday party, but David arrives, and Graham goes home. David takes Jenny to Paris and that night David and Jenny have sex for the first time. In Paris, the two go sight-seeing, take photos, and go dancing, and Jenny loses her virginity to David. Back in London, Jenny gives her favorite teacher, Miss Stubbs (Olivia Williams), Chanel perfume as a gift from her trip, but Miss Stubbs refuses the gift, telling Jenny that she knows where it came from and is both concerned and disapproving of her relationship with David. They argue and have a falling-out. Later that night, David proposes marriage. After talking with her parents, Jenny accepts the proposal, but the news causes an argument with her headmistress Miss Walters (Emma Thompson), and she decides to drop out of school and not pursue a place at university. When David proposes marriage, Jenny accepts and leaves school. All of Jenny's teachers plead with her to continue on her journey to Oxford, but Jenny is exulted with the attention she is getting & accepts David's offer. Her parents aren't the least bit bothered & in fact her dad seems happy that now Jenny will be well looked after & there is no need for her to go to oxford after all. She one night, while David is treating Jenny's family to dinner, Jenny happens to check David's mail & discovers David is already married. Shocked, Jenny tells David to take her and her parents back home. Jenny tearfully argues with David, telling him she gave up her education to be with him. David says he will get a divorce and agrees that he will tell her parents the truth with her, but after she goes inside her house, he drives off and is never seen again. Jenny despairs, and goes to see Danny and Helen, blaming them for not telling her the truth early on. She also blames her parents for encouraging her to throw her life away with an older man. Jenny goes to see David's wife Sarah (Sally Hawkins), who tells her that David is a serial adulterer, and has a son. Later that night, Jack apologizes to Jenny, admitting that he messed up and that he believed David could give her the life she wanted. Jack points out that although David wasn't who he said he was, Jenny had also deceived her parents about David's nature by playing along with some of David's lies to her parents. When Jenny is then refused re-admission to her old school to repeat her last year and take her exams, she goes to Miss Stubbs, apologizing and asking for her help. Miss Stubbs eagerly agrees, and Jenny resumes her studies and is accepted at Oxford the following year. In a closing voiceover, Jenny shares a story about dating boys her age and starting over with fresh eyes, despite her experience with David.

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By Sarah Lyall

Oct. 1, 2009

WITHOUT her glittering, voracious intelligence, Jenny, the 16-year-old protagonist of “An Education,” would surely be condemned to a life as dreary and constrained as that of her parents. It is England in 1961, before the decade started to swing, and Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is impatiently thinking about existentialism, listening to Juliette Gréco records and hoping that admission to Oxford will prove her ticket out of suburban Twickenham.

But suddenly an alternative type of schooling appears in the intriguing form of David (Peter Sarsgaard), a man twice her age who charms Jenny into accepting a lift in his sleek Bristol as she waits for the bus one rain-sodden afternoon. “An Education,” which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, follows her as she is drawn into David’s irresistible world a bohemian romp of weekend excursions to Paris, afternoons at the dog track and evenings at concerts and nightclubs before coming to understand it all too well.

“An Education,” made for less than $8 million, won the audience award at Sundance and was, unusually, also accepted at the Berlin, Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Ms. Mulligan, with her ability to convey simultaneously naïveté and knowingness, vulnerability and strength, has been acclaimed as a future star, and the movie has been generating the kind of buzz that independent filmmakers dream about.

It had its genesis in something modest, a snippet of a memoir in Granta magazine. In the article, later expanded to a book, the journalist Lynn Barber described her scandalous affair with a man in his 30s when she was a schoolgirl in the early 1960s. The writer Nick Hornby happened to read the piece and was struck both by its subject and by the way it allowed for a range of sometimes conflicting emotions and motivations.

“I thought it was quite painful and funny, which is the sort of material I try to invent for myself in fiction,” he said in an interview. “Most writing goes into one group and stays there it’s either serious or comedic, but life isn’t like that and I don’t see why fiction should be either.”

Mr. Hornby showed the article to his wife, the producer Amanda Posey. “I said, ‘I think you should do something with this,’ ” he recalled. “I didn’t think of doing it for myself, and when she started to talk about other writers, I started feeling a little possessive. I was saying, ‘What do you want him for?’ And I realized I was feeling chippy for a reason.”

So Mr. Hornby wrote the screenplay (Ms. Posey produced, along with Finola Dwyer). He realized, he said, that the story resonated with his own experience of having felt suffocated by adolescent angst and suburban circumstance as a teenager.

“It was a different version of ‘Fever Pitch’ being a suburban kid and wanting to be more grown-up than one is, and the feeling that you’re missing things like books and music that you’re not getting at home,” he said, referring to his best-selling memoir in which he poured his inchoate adolescent longings into an obsession with the Arsenal soccer team.

A great deal of care has gone into ensuring that the period details are right, because the film is rooted so firmly in a particular time. “With some films, the time itself is more like a set design, part of the style of the film, and the artistic and mental feel is more important than the accuracy,” said the director, Lone Scherfig. “But this is a film that really benefits from being accurate.”

She said she wanted to show the parallels between Jenny and the era itself. “London was about to explode culturally, and so is Jenny,” she said. “There was this appetite for an unknown future that could shake off the postwar, boring, melancholic 1950s. Jenny had this appetite to read and learn and find her own identity, and in London things changed so quickly. Right after the film ends, you know that the first Beatles album is going to come out.”

The movie diverges from Ms. Barber’s story in several details. Jenny’s parents are more sympathetic than Ms. Barber’s were, in a way that helps the viewer believe that, however misguided, they really have their daughter’s best interests at heart. Ms. Barber never left school, as Jenny does for a time, and never traveled to Oxford for the weekend with David under the guise of going to meet C. S. Lewis, as Jenny does. But Mr. Hornby’s screenplay remains true, mostly, to Ms. Barber’s emotions and motivations.

They are complicated ones. Jenny does lose her innocence, sexually and otherwise, but the balance of power between her and David begins to shift as she sees who he really is. Her parents, meanwhile, are so dazzled by his sophistication and his lavish compliments that they drop their middle-class obsession with propriety and collude in his seduction of their daughter.

And David is perhaps the most complicated of all, at least from an actor’s perspective. In true life, Ms. Barber disliked her older boyfriend, but in the film the audience sees David’s immense charm smooth, occasionally gauche and, finally, pathetic.

“It’s a really hard part,” said Ms. Scherfig, who is Danish but who came to the project because, she said, she shares an agent with and is a longtime admirer of Mr. Hornby. “David has to seduce not just Jenny, but also her parents and everyone around him, and the audience.”

She added, speaking of Mr. Sarsgaard: “His performance is really well orchestrated and layered, and he has the courage to try and get as many facets there as possible and still tell the story. There are a lot of red herrings in the character, and you don’t predict what’s going to happen, but it doesn’t feel wrong when it does.”

Comedy, sadness and disillusionment are intermingled in the movie. Emma Thompson has a small part as the strait-laced headmistress of Jenny’s school, hauling Jenny in for lectures that can be dismaying, offensive and also very funny. Jenny’s father (Alfred Molina) has some equally extreme views on why it is a bad idea for Jenny go to France.

“It’s a challenge for all of the actors to play on two different instruments at the same time; the humor acts as a crowbar to get the emotions to work,” Ms. Scherfig said. To that end, she has cast actors like Rosamond Pike who usually exudes intelligence, and who isn’t known for playing comedy against type, she said, so that “they carry the luggage from the opposite genre with them.”

Ms. Pike plays Helen, the girlfriend of David’s best friend, Danny (Dominic Cooper, late of “Mama Mia!”) She is breathtaking and worldly but ignorant and also not very bright. “Why would you say it in French?” she asks, genuinely mystified, when Jenny drops a bon mot or two in an attempt at sophistication.

Viewers might delight in the cars, the interiors and the costumes, particularly when Jenny gets to change out of her school uniform, put her hair up á la Audrey Hepburn, and wear, thanks to David, slinky cocktail dresses. But with all her attention to detail, Ms. Scherfig said that she didn’t want a “museum film packed with details for no reason.”

“My primary goal was to do a film where you break the barrier between the period and the audience,” she said. “I wanted you to forget that you were watching a period film and feel that you are with Jenny, and that in the back of your mind is the knowledge that things might get better for her.”

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Sixteen year old "Jenny" (Carey Mulligan) lives with her aspiring, middle class, parents "Jack" (Alfred Molina) and "Marjorie" (Cara Seymour) whose only real desire in life is for her to study at Oxford University. This is and has been her sole focus throughout her childhood, until, that is - she encounters the dashing "David" (Peter Skarsgard). He's easily twice her age but is so much more stimulating than her schoolboy friend "Graham" (Matthew Beard). This isn't a sweep her off her feet relationship, he gradually engages her in conversation and finds they share common interests. He makes her... read the rest.

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