NOMINATED FOR 3 ACADEMY AWARDS! BEST PICTURE, ACRESS, SCREENPLAY
Invariably funny and inexpressibly moving in the way it looks at a young girl's journey from innocence to experience, An Education does so many things so well, it's difficult to know where to begin when cataloging its virtues. What's easy is knowing where you'll end up, which is marveling at the performance by Carey Mulligan that is the film's irreplaceable centerpiece. Mulligan seizes the character of 16-year-old Jenny in a once-in-a-lifetime way. This British independent film was written by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy) from a memoir by journalist Lynn Barber. Carey Mulligan is gifted with the ability to make us believe in Jenny as an innocent, Jenny as a person of experience and all the Jennys in between. This is a performance, and a film, to cherish for this year and always. –Los Angeles Times
“Captures the very limited possibilities for female liberation in early-'60s London in exquisite detail.” –Salon.com
“THRILLING! No movie I’ve seen in a very long time has touched me so deeply, or bestowed so much pleasure…Carey Mulligan is a dazzling new star! One thinks not only of Audrey Hepburn, but of Julie Christie. Ms. Mulligan is phenomenal. The whole film is phenomenal. I love it.” --The Wall Street Journal
Cast Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson