Noodle and I had a little cinema nouveau rendezvous last night, so now I know why there's such Oscar buzz surrounding this movie and its lead, the delightful Carey Mulligan.
Seriously, how else would you describe her?
I loved this movie. It got all the ticks: intelligent story, great characters and performances, elegant costume design (see below), humour mixed with some very thought-provoking ideas...
Found the story very ... relate-able, especially the worldly-wise man sweeping into Jenny's life and opening her eyes to how very, very small her world is. Oh and the bit about spending your whole life working towards something that suddenly doesn't seem all that very important.
And I got to have popcorn for supper, so omnomnom to that.
Couldn't help thinking about Juno for a minute while watching it. What's so refreshing about Jenny's collected, self-assured intelligence is that it was tinged with none of the annoying precociousness of Ellen Page's character. Guess that's the difference between American and British cinema: the art of the understated.
Seriously, go see this movie.
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