An Education
AN EDUCATION is the story of a teenage girl’s coming-of-age, set in Britain in the early 1960s on the cusp of the strait-laced, post-war period and the free-spirited decade to come. Directed by award-winning Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig (WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS) from a screenplay by Nick Hornby (HIGH FIDELITY, ABOUT A BOY) AN EDUCATION was adapted from a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber, which originally appeared in the literary magazine Granta.
In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan), is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man. She is a diligent student, excelling in every subject, but her older suitor introduces her to a glittering new world of classical concerts, late-night suppers, art auctions and smoky clubs – replacing Jenny’s traditional education with his own version. Just as her family’s long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into Oxford seems within reach, she is tempted by another kind of life.
Will this be the making of Jenny or her undoing?
Audience Award World Cinema - Dramatic Sundance Film Festival 2009 Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2009
- Director: Lone Scherfig
- Executive Producer: Douglas Hansen, Wendy Japhet, Jamie Laurenson, James D. Stern, David M. Thompson
- Producer: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
- Screenwriter: Nick Hornby
- Cinematographer John de Borman
- Editor: Barney Pilling
- Music: Paul Englishby
- Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper
