An Education (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/USA

Feature Film

Director: Lone Scherfig

Writers: Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber

Cinematographer: John de Borman

Composer: Paul Englishby

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson

On the cusp of adulthood, Jenny, an Oxbridge candidate with a pushy father, meets a dashing older man, who proceeds to seduce her with his romantic, adventurous lifestyle, but as time passes and numerous hidden truths are uncovered she begins to question the life path that she is about to set out on, in Scherfig’s generally entertaining and well acted (by Mulligan, at least) if rather hastily and (vaguely) shoddily concluded 1960s set film. Iain.Stott