Elle Fanning and Alice Englert (her feature debut) are excellent as free-thinking friends growing up in 60s nuclear crisis era Britain. The latter falls for the former's independent minded father (a bit of a shit) Alessandro Novola, who has abandoned the mother Christina Hendricks. Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt and Annette Bening play supportive gay friends.
Good jazz score and realistic photography by Robbie Ryan in Panavision.
I wonder why they cast an American and a New Zealander to play two English girls when you would have thought there'd be plenty of homegrown ones available.
Elle is fantastic but overall, I didn't love it.
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