Ginger & Rosa

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  • Opened March 15, 2013 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 30 min
  • PG-13 | Mature disturbing thematic material involving teen choices - sexuality, drinking, smoking, and for language
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 15+. More on child suitability

  • London,1962. Two teenage girls – GINGER & ROSA – are inseparable. They skip school together, talk about love, religion and politics and dream of lives bigger than their mothers’ domesticity. But the growing threat of nuclear war casts a shadow over their lives. Ginger (Elle Fanning) is drawn to poetry and protest, while Rosa (Alice Englert) shows Ginger how to smoke cigarettes, kiss boys and pray. Both rebel against their mothers: Rosa’s single mum, Anoushka (Jodhi May), and Ginger’s frustrated painter mother, Natalie (Christina Hendricks). Meanwhile, Ginger’s pacifist father, Roland (Alessandro Nivola) seems a romantic, bohemian figure to the girls. He encourages Ginger’s ‘Ban-the-Bomb’ activism, while Rosa starts to take a very different interest in him. As Ginger’s parents fight and fall apart, Ginger finds emotional sanctuary with a gay couple, both named Mark (Timothy Spall and Oliver Platt), and their American friend, the poet Bella (Annette Bening). Full synopsis

  • Cast: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Jodhi May, Christina Hendricks, Annette Bening
  • Director: Sally Potter
  • Genres: Drama

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Ginger and Rosa

by sshoward

Just saw Ginger and Rosa. If this film hadn't been under the radar, Elle Fanning would undoubtedly have been rewarded with an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, giving a performance which is now...

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by steplin36

A slow beginning but then you are fully aware what is happening and really get i8nto this story,it was very well done and would recommend it....

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GInger and Rosa

by Peneflix

1962: Samoa granted independence from New Zealand, John Glenn is the first American to orbit earth, Jackie Kennedy gives a televised tour of the White House, Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel...

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Entertainment Weekly
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A touching drama from British art-house filmmaker Sally Potter, who broke through to wider audiences with 1992's "Orlando" and has now made her most mainstream movie yet. Read full review

75
Slant Magazine
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With Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter manages to avoid nearly every pratfall of such period pieces, focusing on extreme alienation rather than enlightenment, and wringing a powerful and jaundiced coming-of-age story from the decade's less trod corners. Read full review

75
Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

In Fanning, Potter has found the perfect vessel, and the miracle is that the actress doesn’t even seem to be trying. She just is. Read full review

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NPR
| Bob Mondello

An intriguingly complex portrait of both of its characters and of the time of flux they live in. Read full review

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Elle Fanning as Ginger in "Ginger & Rosa."