Monday, May 20, 2013
Ginger and Rosa (2013)
In 1962 London BFF girls “Ginger and Rosa” (Elle Fanning of “Super 8” and
newcomer Alice Englert) do that teen thing that many teens do: Piss on chores and curfew, dabble in romances, and smoke. They also strain
under paranoia from the Cuban Missile Crisis and a far closer atomic bomb of
the emotional kind involving Ginger’s anarchist dad and fragile mom (Alessandro
Nivola and Christina Hendricks). Despite the obvious turn, I won’t spill
details, but director/writer Sally Potter (“Orlando”) lights the fuse early.
Porter has a beautiful-looking film here, picture-wise, and perfects the myriad
details of teens from clothes to petty jealousies. But it’s also top heavy with too many Jiminy Crickets for Ginger. Annette Bening
plays a leftist with no purpose in life but to dispel advise to our gal, and
the same is true of Ginger’s gay godparents (Timothy Spall and Oliver Platt).
More so, the only time a radio plays, it bears only doom and gloom like some
Orsen Welles production. (TV, movies, nor newspapers figure at all.) All that
said, Fanning is spectacular, a Yank going Brit on screen, and as flawlessly as
Streep did Thatcher. B
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