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Ginger & Rosa

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United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada · 2012
Rated PG-13 · 1h 29m
Director Sally Potter
Starring Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola
Genre Drama

Two teenage girls, Ginger and Rosa, come of age in 1960’s London amidst the Cold War, as the Missile Crisis looms. Beginning as inseparable friends, their differing attitudes toward the political threat and the advent of this historical event redefine their relationship and growing intimacy.

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Slant Magazine by

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.

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Total Film by Emma Dibdin

Spearheaded by a strikingly self-assured turn from Elle Fanning, this ’60s-set coming-of-ager follows two teenage girls whose bond starts to crumble under the emotional and political pressures of adulthood.

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IndieWire by Eric Kohn

A viscerally charged movie that foregrounds surface tensions and gripping performances, Ginger and Rosa is the filmmaker's most accessible and technically surefooted work to date.

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Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

The most heart-wrenching thing about the film is watching Fanning’s transformation from idealist to wreck, the father’s free-thinking daughter turned into the mother’s double in the space of a dinner argument. It’s not quite enough for a film, but it is for one magnificent scene.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

Potter seems at a loss to communicate the ideas behind her agonizingly elliptical picture, leaving auds to marvel at the gorgeous cinematography and scarlet-red hair of its heroine, earnestly played by Elle Fanning in a project undeserving of her talents.

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The Playlist by Rodrigo Perez

Beautiful, yet dark and moving, unsparing, but told with a sympathetic eye, Ginger & Rosa is sometimes relentless in its examination of emotional pain.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

The film’s small scale is more than compensated for by its insights into adolescent awareness, the passions stoked by global causes and the moral hypocrisy of the ideologically righteous.

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