Ginger & Rosa (2012)

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

Director:

Sally Potter

Writer:

Sally Potter

Stars:

Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Oliver Platt

3 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Elle Fanning	...	Ginger
Alessandro Nivola	...	Roland
Christina Hendricks	...	Natalie
Alice Englert	...	Rosa
Timothy Spall	...	Mark
Oliver Platt	...	Mark Two
Annette Bening	...	Bella
Jodhi May	...	Anoushka
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Francesca Bennett	...	Nosey neighbour
Greg Bennett	...	Demo Policeman
Luke Cloud	...	Rosa's dad
Philip Harvey	...	Demo Policeman
Robin Harvey	...	CND Protester
Andrew Hawley	...	Tony
Matt Hookings	...	Policeman

Storyline

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, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered - by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.

---

Plot Keywords:

teenage girl | 1960s | friendship | cold war | sexual revolution | 

---

Taglines:

Friendship pulled them together. Love tore them apart.

---

Genres:

Drama

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for mature disturbing thematic material involving teen choices - sexuality, drinking, smoking, and for language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Twitter

Country:

UK Denmark Canada Croatia

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 October 2012 (UK)

Also Known As:

Bomb

Filming Locations:

Dungeness, Kent, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$42,838 (USA) (15 March 2013)

Gross:

$849,186 (USA) (10 May 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Adventure Pictures, BBC Films, British Film Institute (BFI)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Elle Fanning had her first screen kiss on this movie.

---

Quotes

Ginger: We had a dream, that we would always be best friends. When we were born, for some it was the end. Now it seems that it may not be tomorrow. But despite the horror, and the sorrow I loved our world, I wanted us all to live. Now Rosa, you've asked me to forgive. One day, If mom survives this bitched night, and we shall meet again, and I will say: "I loved you Rosa. Don't you see?" But we are different, you dreamed of everlasting love. Not me. Because what really matters, is to live, and if we do ...

---

Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.63 (2012)

User Reviews

Team Ginger ... needs better friends and family

A small movie for perhaps an even smaller audience, Ginger & Rosa is a coming-of-age/sexual awakening tale of two close girlfriends growing up in London in 1962 at the height of the frantic and worrisome Cuban Missile Crisis.

Ginger (an exceptional Elle Fanning) has found her life turned upside down when her squabbling parents – the put-upon, under-appreciated, one-time artist mother (Mad Men's Christina Hendricks) and the esteemed, bohemian, philandering professor father (Alessandro Nivola) – decide to separate and her closest friend Rosa (Alice Englert) could care less as she is more interested in wearing eye shadow and nail polish to impress the random teenage boy.

To become more active and to distract herself from her own life's unraveling situation (thanks, Rosa!), Ginger takes on the cause of nuclear disarmament after being swayed by the conversations of her mother's political activist friends (O. Platt, T. Spall and A. Bening). No matter the bigger obstacles Ginger takes upon herself, the various actions of her family and friends are what ultimately threaten the young girl and her well-being.

Ginger & Rosa is a decent film that will not appeal to a mass audience. It is a slow-moving character-study of the film's strongest character, Ginger. Luckily Rosa -- a character who is very hard to like from the get-go (selfish) -- isn't really featured enough to merit her name in the title. Some will see the film as ponderous as the young Ginger strives to find reason and purpose; but she is a realistic character and Fanning is subtle in some scenes and fantastic in others. (THIS is the more-talented Fanning sister and I have felt this way since Somewhere).

I tried to explain the "feel" of the film to a friend the other day and I said it was much like placing a pot of water on the stove for it to boil. It is a pot of water sitting on a stove (exciting!) ... just sitting there as it simmers while we get a bubble here and a bubble there! When it finally hits the boiling point -- watch out! -- because it could boil over!