An Education (2009)

An Education: The story of a girl coming of age in pre-Beatles Britain

Ever since it screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it took home both the audience and cinematography awards, An Education has gone on to charm festival audiences worldwide. But even as it’s generating Oscar buzz—especially for its young lead, Carey Mulligan, who’s been hailed the new Audrey Hepburn—the film has also sparked a fair amount of ire along the way, with a few outraged theatergoers dismissing it as “that pedophile movie” for its depiction of the relationship between a precocious 16-year-old girl (Mulligan) and her sophisticated older lover (Peter Sarsgaard).

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