Awards? nominated for Academy Awards Best Picture and Best Actress--didn't win
Starring: Carey Mulligan; Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Roasmund Pike, Emma Thompson. Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Matthew Bird. Sally Hawkins, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Ellie Kendrick
sez says: what a disappointment--I have no idea why this was nominated for any awards. I guess you can say it is well made (as most films are), and it is well acted (not better or worse than most movies these days) and --you can also say, it is not very interesting. In fact, I found it problematic. It is about a little girl/young woman who is seduced by a cad. (She is 16, turning 17. Yes she is post-pubescent but she is only 16 when most of this takes place.) While she is bright and pretty she is still legally and ethically a child. So no matter how much she may look like a woman when she is all dressed-up, let's not kid ourselves she is just a kid. In this story she is introduced to a world that is much more interesting than her prep-school and the control of her overbearing father. The aforementioned cad romances her with a fairytale life. Eventually he is revealed to be false and she realizes she really ought to go to college (Oxford, no less). The end. That is suppose to be interesting? Not so much, if you ask me. And stories that contain titillation based on the deflowering of a 17 year by 'an older man' are suspect in my book. (Grade C-)
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