Plot. Metacritic
In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man.
Wikipedia:
An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film based on an autobiographical memoir of the same title written by the British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig, with screenplay written by Nick Hornby.
Coen Van Zwol, An Education. NRC. 10.2.2010
Het schoolmeisje en de oude charmeur. Je weet hoe het afloopt, die dreiging hangt steeds in de lucht. Toch is An Education zo’n rijke karakterstudie dat je erin wilt geloven en dat het demasqué droevig stemt.
Peter Bradshaw, An Education. The Guardian. 29.10.2009.
A very unsentimental education it was, too. Nick Hornby has adroitly adapted and given a dramatic shape to the bestselling memoir by Lynn Barber, telling the true story of how, in the early 1960s, she was seduced as a 16-year-old schoolgirl by an older man. This sociopathic charmer's seduction crucially extended to her poor old mum and dad, dazzling them into being complicit in the arrangement; along with their daughter, they went into a clenched denial about what was happening.
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