Comments on: An Education

By: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy » Movie Monster

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy » Movie Monster — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:29:20 +0000

[...] London façade of the Beatles and Blow-Up has all but corroded; it’s been reabsorbed into An Education-era tattiness like a mouse in Mountain Dew. Nowhere is the closing gap between generations more [...]

By: Certified Copy » Movie Monster

Certified Copy » Movie Monster — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:18:03 +0000

[...] “chic” is trashy but tragic. I think many Americans long for a fresh form of lyricism now, in features set around the time that Marienbad was made—and on T.V., too: in Mad Men. (Don Draper takes an extended lunch to see the film in one [...]

By: Never Let Me Go » Movie Monster

Never Let Me Go » Movie Monster — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:28:18 +0000

[...] reputation and its own patina of prestige. The performances of two of my favorite up-and-comers (Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield, both appositely cast) aren’t of the failing grade that would incite me to [...]

By: Breathless » Movie Monster

Breathless » Movie Monster — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:57:22 +0000

[...] period in which it was made, so elegiacally stylized in A Single Man and beautifully rendered in An Education, is vividly revived here—so tensely present that immortality seems not just possible but proven. [...]

By: The Ghost Writer » Movie Monster

The Ghost Writer » Movie Monster — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:20:38 +0000

[...] to Lang’s wife Ruth (Olivia Williams). Williams suffered through a booby-trapped role in An Education, but here—occupying a part that was intended for Tilda Swinton (it shows)—she’s re-clawed and [...]

By: And the Winner for the Best Picture of 2009 is . . . » Movie Monster

And the Winner for the Best Picture of 2009 is . . . » Movie Monster — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:19:09 +0000

[...] An Education [...]

By: A Single Man » Movie Monster

A Single Man » Movie Monster — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:53:02 +0000

[...] blend together—with more concord than the filmmakers perhaps intended. We’re once again in the An Education period—1962—though, this time, the British protagonist has swum across the pond, and then some, [...]

By: Sara Brown

Sara Brown — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:47:09 +0000

Informative, Thanks you.

By: Brothers » Movie Monster

Brothers » Movie Monster — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:56:05 +0000

[...] she gives a blandly conceived role the virtuous performance it deserves. When Carey Mulligan (of An Education) has her brief bit as a fallen soldier’s widow, she brings a humane softness to the movie; her [...]