The Daily Beast
Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, breakout star Carey Mulligan is generating Oscar buzz for her performance as a young girl seduced by an older man in 1960s London.
An Education chronicles the innocent time before the '60s swung into an era of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, as 16-year-old parochial schoolgirl Jenny (brilliantly portrayed by Carey Mulligan) sits in her parents' suburban London flat diligently studying to attend Oxford.
Stifled by the monotony of her adolescent life and standing with her cello in the middle of a rainstorm, Jenny is approached by David (the always pitch-perfect Peter Sarsgaard), a charming thirtysomething living in the world Jenny dreams of—the seemingly sophisticated realm of smoking bars, late-night dinners, and black-tie galas give the Francophile teenager the option to trade her boring life for a Paris-bound one.
Though Jenny's parents (played by Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour) initially seem content with their daughter frolicking about the city with a man twice her age, surprises abound, and growing up has never been so poignant.
Far from the typical and treacly coming-of-age tale, the film boasts a script by Nick Hornby that steers it away from preachy lessons learned about rebellion. Mulligan's Oscar-worthy performance makes An Education one not to miss this weekend. Read Rachel Syme's interview with Mulligan on The Daily Beast.
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