An Education
Show Information
| Starts | November 29, 2009 |
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| Ends | November 29, 2009 |
| Location | Starts 7:00pm at the Jan Cinema (100 Ave across from the Co-op Marketplace) |
Pricing
| $ 9.00 | Members in Advance (Membership $10.00) |
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| $ 11.00 | Members at the Door |
| $ 13.00 | Non-Members |
Description
An Education – Trailer
Director: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper
Country: UK
Language: English
Brought to Grande Prairie in partnership with Film Circuit, a division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, An Education is a PG-rated (Mature Subject Matter) film about a teenage girl in 1960s London who is torn between pursuing her education at Oxford and traveling the world with an exciting older man she’s fallen for. In this, her first leading role, Carey Mulligan is a marvel as Jenny.
“Her transformation in An Education from a naïve teenager to a world-weary woman is as seamless, tender and bewitching as the critical hoopla would have you believe” according to Sun Media writer Kevin Williamson. Her performance has already earned her the Breakthrough Actress award at the Hollywood Awards gala on Oct 26 and is generating Oscar buzz from critics that she’s a leading contender for Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination.
But it isn’t just Mulligan’s performance that sparkles. “Captivatingly written, directed and acted with sensitivity and nuance, this is one of the best films of the year” writes Rex Reed of The New York Observer in his Oct 6 review.
The film’s screenwriter is the ever-popular Nick Hornby whose earlier books, including About a Boy and High Fidelity, have already been made into highly successful films. For this film, he adapted the memoir of British journalist Lynn Barber.
After giving it five stars, John Griffin of The Montreal Gazette concludes his Oct 22 review quite simply: “Do not miss it!”
An Education (100 minutes) will be preceded by Multiple Choice, a 5-minute comedy from Australia about 3 engineering students who try to outwit their professor during final exams. It’s rated PG (Violence).
