This could have been a film about a young girl who falls in love with a Jew and, in anti- Semitic pre-Beattles London, loses her place in public school and has to fight her way into Oxford.
Or it could have been a film about a caddish con-man who sweeps her off her feet and she loses her place in school and fights her way into Oxford.
My complaint is that they conflates the two. By making David gratuitously a Jew, the film isn't a comment on English anti-Semitism but an example of it. It worked better in Marlowe's Sixteenth Century England than in today's.
That said, the cinematography and acting are superb and it's a film worth seeing.
Or it could have been a film about a caddish con-man who sweeps her off her feet and she loses her place in school and fights her way into Oxford.
My complaint is that they conflates the two. By making David gratuitously a Jew, the film isn't a comment on English anti-Semitism but an example of it. It worked better in Marlowe's Sixteenth Century England than in today's.
That said, the cinematography and acting are superb and it's a film worth seeing.