An Education [Blu-ray]

Excellent movie! Top five faves !

Great actors and storyline. I've watched this movie many times and I think it's amazing!

I enjoyed it immensely but I’m a senior citizen without children to worry about. Because it does seem to normalize sixteen year old girls dating men in their thirties I’d be reluctant to permit young teens to see it without a great deal of discussion, including of Lynn’s magazine article relating the long term damage, not mentioned in the film, done to her. Fortunately, she went on to enjoy a long successful marriage and career as a journalist.Perhaps it wasn’t illegal but her parents were negligent; falling for the con was inexcusable. Her father was a lawyer, proving intelligent people sometimes make stupid choices. She still resents her parents’ poor judgment and feels the affair influenced her promiscuity while in college.The tone is sometimes humorous and Carrie Mulligan plays the precocious and engaging teen, hungering for sophistication, to a T. Rosamond Pike is hilarious while the English teacher is the only adult in the room.To clarify, pedophilia is the attraction to prepubescent children. Most sixteen (seventeen before they had sex) year old girls have reached puberty while reaching the age of consent is a different issue. The film does not portray pedophilia. I believe the laws making it a greater crime when there is a larger age discrepancy between the willing victim and perpetrator.Some reviewers questioned why David is portrayed as Jewish, making the film anti-Semitic. The answer is, because he actually was. His religion could have been omitted but, to me anyway, those were satirical scenes depicting the bigoted world views of the father and headmistress. Humor was the intention and the father was portrayed as a buffoon through the film.I do understand the negative reviews but I thought it was an excellent, if controversial, movie.

A great film! The lessons this young woman learns about such playboy men early on are priceless and stand the test of time BUT the time period here also reflects how women were viewed in society as well as their lack of choices. Exaggerated perhaps BUT well presented....captivating. Now we hv different societal issues with women's' role in society as realistically a woman can not 'always' be both a wife and a successful or fulfilled business woman, professional or academic. Of course, we can or rather have the choice but the timing , circumstances and choices don't always align as well for each person.This character is reminded that her education is more valuable than a man's antics.

Great story, cast and director.Based on Lynn Barber's memoir of her teenage love affair.David Goldman is just a jerk and not a man. He's dishonest and a coward.He fooled his wife/child, his friends, Jenny Mellor's parents and Jenny.It's a good thing Jenny had a down-to-earth concerned teacher and headmistress.After realizing what David put her through, Jenny grew up, thus an education.Loved the great ending!

This young woman was headed for disaster. She finally came to her senses and did an about face. Thank goodness!

We love this film and have referred friends to enjoy this smart and sophisticated story. Especially love the scene with the night club singer.

This story was better than I expected. The leading lady was the perfect combination of wily cleverness and wholesome naïveté.The leading man was spot on as the manipulative, deplorable cad who comes off as lost, woebegone, and just in need of the love of the right woman, unaware of the devastation he wreaks, everywhere he goes.It is a coming of age cautionary tale, but not the least heavy handed about it. The end was a surprise, but a good one, a very good one! I recommend this, highly.

Très satisfait

This is a film which my Dad watched the other day on BBC1. It's a coming of age film of a young girl who studied Latin at a School for privileged Girls. Jenny meets and falls in love with a man who is much older than her and is a successful real estate man with influential friends. She eventually finds out he is a married man. She does achieve her place at Oxford University to finish her studies.

Me impresionó desde que la vi en el cine, y no he dudado un momento en aprovechar la oportunidad de tenerla en blu-ray.Perfecta tanto de imagen como de sonido, y con un guión e interpretaciones sencillamente sublimes. Una obra maestra en mi humilde opinión.

Tres bon produit , le son et l'image sont de tres bonnes qualités, aussi les thèmes choisis sont intéressants et surtout tres éducatifs.

Sceneggiato di Nick Hornby, che ha tratto lo script della autobiografia della scrittrice Lynn Barber, AN EDUCATION racconta la formazione sentimentale di una adolescente negli anni '60, con un linguaggio che ricorda il free cinema di quegli anni. Coinvolgente, raccontato benissimo, ha il suo punto di forma nella strepitosa interpretazione della protagonista, Carey Mulligan, del tutto nella parte a dispetto dei sei-sette anni di differenza tra l'attrice e l'eroina che mette in scena. A lei, si affiancano un credibilissimo Peter Sarsgaard, affascinante ed equivoco, un quasi commovente Alfred Molina, nel ruolo del padre della ragazza, ed un cast in generale stato di grazia.Una vicenda drammatica, dalla tensione che scorre sotterranea e quasi inespressa, sino al finale che ovviamente non va in alcun modo raccontato, ma che merita decisamente di essere vista.Davvero un bel film.