Ginger & Rosa
Ginger & Rosa | |
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Directed by | Sally Potter |
Written by | Sally Potter |
Produced by | Christopher Sheppard Andrew Litvin |
Starring | Elle Fanning Alice Englert Alessandro Nivola Christina Hendricks Annette Bening |
Cinematography | Robbie Ryan |
Edited by | Anders Refn |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Artificial Eye (UK) A24 (US) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 90 minutes[1] |
Countries | United Kingdom Denmark Canada Croatia |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,616,973[2] |
Ginger & Rosa is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Sally Potter and distributed by Artificial Eye.[3] The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2012,[4] and was released on 19 October 2012 in the United Kingdom.[5]
Plot
London, 1962. Two teenage girls – Ginger and Rosa – are inseparable. They play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates in the Cuban missile crisis, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered – by the clash of desire and the determination to survive:[6]
Cast
- Elle Fanning as Ginger
- Alice Englert as Rosa
- Alessandro Nivola as Roland
- Annette Bening as May Bella
- Timothy Spall as Mark
- Oliver Platt as Mark II
- Christina Hendricks as Natalie, Ginger's mother
- Jodhi May as Anoushka
- Luke Cloud as Rosa's father
Production
Ginger & Rosa shot at several locations in Kent including Dengemarsh Sound Mirrors, Lydd on Sea, Lade Beach, Greatstone, Lydd Ranges, Lydd and Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey.[7]
Reception
Ginger & Rosa received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 79% of 101 critics gave the film a good review, with an average rating of 6.7/10 and the consensus that "Elle Fanning gives a terrific performance in this powerful coming-of-age tale about a pair of teenage girls whose friendship is unnerved by the threat of nuclear war." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1 to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a 70 based on 24 critics indicating "generally favorable reviews." Swedish critic Pidde Andersson compared the film favourably to the films of Jean Rollin.[8]
References
- ^ "GINGER & ROSA (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
- ^ http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/ginger-rosa-2012
- ^ "Films – Ginger and Rosa". BBC. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
- ^ Mark Olsen (September 8, 2012). "Elle Fanning tears up on screen and off with 'Ginger and Rosa'". Retrieved September 17, 2012.
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(help) - ^ "Ginger and Rosa | UK Cinema Release Date". Filmdates.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
- ^ "Ginger & Rosa Trailer, News, Videos, and Reviews". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
- ^ "Ginger and Rosa (2012)". Kent Film Office. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
- ^ http://www.toppraffel.se/2013/08/bio-ginger-rosa.html
External links
- 2012 films
- 2010s drama films
- British films
- British drama films
- Danish films
- Danish drama films
- Canadian films
- Canadian drama films
- Croatian films
- Croatian drama films
- English-language films
- Coming-of-age films
- Films set in 1962
- Films set in London
- Films set in the 1960s
- Films shot in Kent
- Independent films
- A24 films