'An Education' Heats Up

An Education has played in at least ten film festivals over the past year and has gotten rave reviews out of each one. A coming-of-age drama about a sixteen-year-old British girl (Carey Mulligan) who falls for a charming but less-than-morally-sound man in his early thirties (Peter Sarsgaard), it's considered a major Oscar frontrunner, especially for Mulligan, who's currently twenty-four in real life.

Given the subject matter -- and the fact that sex between older men and teenagers has been in the news a lot recently -- some outlets have begun to question whether or not people will be turned off by the premise.

Speaking to Mulligan, Entertainment Weekly asked her what her take on the reactions has been:

It really varies from audience to audience. Sometimes people will be shocked by the scenes where it's more intimate. Sometimes completely grossed out. Peter, here in Toronto, is getting this 'creepy' thing a lot. Everyone's like, 'He's so creepy!' Which he doesn't see himself as being at all. [...]

Fathers come up to me and say, 'I really want my daughters to see this.' As if it's sending some message. And that's really nice, even if it's not our intention. Everybody's going to see different things in it, which is why I think it's got a nice group of people to watch it."

You can watch the video of the interview here. I'm getting more and more interested in this movie by the day -- seems like the classic example of a pretty basic concept with a great execution -- and we'll see what mainstream American critics and audiences think when it opens (in limited release) on the 16th of this month.

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