*THREE OSCAR NOMINATIONS*
Young Carey Mulligan gives an Oscar-worthy performance as a sixteen year old girl in 1961 suburban London who hopes to attend college at Oxford, but yearns to be intellectual and sophisticated long before her classmates. Then one day she meets David (Peter Sarsgaard) a charming, older man who takes an interest in her (platonic, he promises her parents), opening a door to a glamorous world she desires, with plays and concerts, chic restaurants, jazz clubs and worldly discussions with him and his friends. This involving and entertaining film with a screenplay by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) based on British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir, is directed with delicate restraint by Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners, Wilbur).