An Education
- Carey Mulligan: Jenny
- Olivia Williams: Miss Stubbs
- Alfred Molina: Jack
- Cara Seymour: Marjorie
- Matthew Beard: Graham
- Peter Sarsgaard: David
- Amanda Fairbank - Hynes: Hattie
- Ellie Kendrick: Tina
- Dominic Cooper: Danny
- Rosamund Pike: Helen
- Emma Thompson: Director
An Education (German: " An Education " ) is a British coming- of-age drama film by Lone Scherfig from 2009 The screenplay by Nick Hornby based on the book by journalist Lynn Barber..
Action
The 16 - year-old Jenny lives in the early 1960s in London. The girl from the suburbs is stopped by her conservative parents to study at Oxford. After the rehearsal for a school concert, she is picked up by the bon vivant David Goldman in the pouring rain at the bus stop. David, in his early thirties, Jenny brings in his sports car home and woos them from now on. Together with him and his friend and business partner Danny and his girlfriend Jenny Helen learns for the first time the life of the upper class know and is entrained in jazz bars and concerts, auctions and dog racing.
The big age difference makes Jenny's parents not suspicious, because David always succeeds, to inspire them with knowledge of human nature, a sense of situations, charm and eloquence for himself and his plans so that parents Jenny allow even a weekend together with him alone. Here, Jenny experienced that David and Danny finance their lifestyle including through theft, and then attempts to separate himself from David. This manages However, Jenny convince them of the correctness of their actions and reclaims them.
On her seventeenth birthday, David manages the stroke of genius - this time already with Jenny's support - to invite their parents to a trip to Paris and she still dissuade ride. There, the two plan to spend their first night together.
Back in London, David makes her a marriage proposal, which she discusses with her parents. Jenny's father agrees to promptly, he sees even the Oxford study of his daughter as superfluous, since he believes provides it. Jenny becomes engaged to David and completed her schooling. The meaning of a good education she questioned in an interview with the school director and drives with David's type of argument into a corner.
In David's car Jenny finds a stack of letters, addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Goldman, " and realizes that he is already married. It demands of David, even to admit this and to separate her parents from his wife, but David never misses the deadline set by Jenny.
Jenny is now looking on David's wife, from whom she learns that he has repeatedly had lovers before her. The attempt of the Father, to clarify the issue for Jenny, this rejects indignantly. She decides to make up for the last school year and goes to the director of their old school, but rejects Jenny's concerns. Thereupon Jenny turns to her former English teacher who you like helping to make up the degree. Finally she gets from Oxford approval for their study of literature.
Reviews
The reviews for the film were mostly positive, but some critics commented negatively about anti-Semitic tendencies of the film. So writes the Jewish Journal in its Film Review, An Education grab old anti - Semitic messages in a new, pretty packet ( " An Education " wraps old anti - Semitic messages in a pretty new package). Maurice Lahde also commented on critic.de: Under the protection of this casualness of the film but then presents pretty much every anti-Semitic cliché that can be imagined.
The magazine Cinema rated the film, however, as the brilliant played emancipation drama that turns out to be a hymn to the freethinking.
Julian Hanich wrote in the Berliner Tagesspiegel: Excellent: Alfred Molina's middle-class father and Carey Mulligan as Jenny, who sometimes reminds her forced dimples offensive to Audrey Hepburn. " An Education " is what the Americans call middlebrow: Entertainment wise, the uncompromising keeps the viewer from any excessive demands.
The film side Moviepilot rated the film as entertaining, recommended cinema experience, however, criticized the end of a much too abruptly [ comes ], making it difficult for the viewer to engage in it. On the other hand, it reverses the message of the film negative.
Background
For the role of Danny Orlando Bloom was initially provided, but this had to cancel due to scheduling difficulties and was replaced by Dominic Cooper. Its world premiere of the film had at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. In Germany he was first shown during the 2009 Berlinale Berlinale in the series special.