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Most actresses wait their whole career for a breakout role. And 24-year-old Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan knows it. Hers was Jenny, the lead character in the Lone Scherfig film An Education, which was adapted from the Lynn Barber memoir about a teenager who falls head over heels for a charming but flawed man. Mulligan's portrayal of a young woman who blooms with love only to wilt upon discovering its complexities has captured the hearts of critics and Oscar voters and has established her as one of the front runners going into the ceremony on March 7. TIME...
...Education, which has been cannily adapted from English journalist Lynn Barber's memoir by Nick Hornby and sensitively visualized by Danish director Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners), Mulligan is again in coming-of-age mode. In the pre-swinging London of 1961, Jenny is already a star of sorts: the smartest, most self-possessed student in her class. Her goal is to be accepted into Oxford; she wants it, and so does her rather overbearing father Jack (Alfred Molina) in the staid, lower-middle-class suburb of Twickenham. But Jenny knows that there's more to life than excelling...
What's lovely about Italian for Beginners is not the way things work out for everyone but that the route to those consummations is so persuasive, with the cast as unactorish as any you've ever seen in a movie. And writer-director Lone Scherfig abides by the stern confines of "Dogma 95," the filmmaking theory promulgated by a group of Danish directors in 1995 that forbids, among other things, musical scores, artificial light and settings, even sound looping. Who knew that charm could survive--let alone prosper--under those strictures...
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