Cited: Hollywood Reporter
As the race for Oscar begins, it seems that the new movie “An Education” is earning good grades. Although, there are still a couple months away from nominations he revealed, this British coming-of-age drama is the first of this year’s crop to get people talking.
It’s got that combination Academy members love: critical acclaim (90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and promising box office business. The Sony Pictures Classics release has earned almost $1 million after three weekends in limited release, and adds theaters in the coming weeks.
Lone Scherfig, a Danish native whose credits include “Italian for Beginners” and the suicide-themed drama “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself,” directed “An Education” from British novelist Nick Hornby’s (”About a Boy”) adaptation of a magazine memoir by journalist Lynn Barber.
Newcomer Carey Mulligan, 24, stars as a studious 16-year-old London schoolgirl who falls for the worldly charms of an older man, played by Peter Sarsgaard. Semi-spoiler alert: He’s not quite who we think he is.
When Scherfig read Hornby’s third-draft screenplay three years ago, she admitted to being “completely seduced” by Sarsgaard’s character, David.
“There is an element in this film where you feel hurt in a way when you’ve seen it,” Scherfig said.
It really has to do with the moviegoer being seduced — just as Mulligan’s Jenny is.
“We don’t want a main character that’s like that. And that’s how the film changes,” Scherfig said.
“It’s about values and choices in life and the importance of finding the way you want to live. In Jenny’s case, finding out that she wants an education for her own sake and to quench her appetite for art and books and for people who know ‘lots about lots,’ as she says.”
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Scherfig had only $8 million with which to work, but it was enough to cover 6-1/2 weeks of filming in spring 2008, mostly in London and Oxford.
“It’s not that big a film, and it’s all shot on location,” she said. “A lot of the scenes are just two people in bed or three people at a table.”
She needed to film out of sequence because with such stars as Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina and Rosamund Pike playing small roles, schedules had to be adjusted to meet their availability.
The shoot was particularly hard on Mulligan, whose naive schoolgirl blossoms into an Audrey Hepburn-type beauty. If all Mulligan’s younger scenes could have been filmed together, she could have stayed in character before progressing to her new look and style for Jenny’s more mature scenes. Happily, there was enough in the budget to shoot the scene in which Jenny visits her dream city.
“Our last shooting day was in Paris. It was my birthday and I finally got to shoot the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame,” Scherfig said.
“It suited the film to get that new wave feel to the Paris she’s dreaming about and then sees,” the director said. Film budget only allowed for a day and a half of hand-held shooting. She knew it had to look like postcard Paris.
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My Take: The movie sounds interesting, but I will have to wait to hear more about it before forming an opinion. I am not really into this type of movie. I am more into sci-fi action and alien movies. Besides, I am not actually planning on looking for cheap airfare to go to England to see it. I will wait to come to America.
Of course, I have been looking into discount group airfare for a trip to Europe. If I decide to go maybe I will watch it and then I tell you my opinion. But, that all depends on what group I go with and where they go.
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