It had been so long since we'd seen Nick Hornby's adaptation of Lynn Barber's memoir that we'd forgotten what happened - which was very refreshing. Schoolgirl Carey Mulligan is seduced by older Peter Sarsgaard and introduced to culture and good things (though his mate Dominic Cooper is actually more suited to the girl). His girlfriend, Rosamund Pike, is elegant and thick. And of course they're not what they appear at all.
He manages ever so smoothly to get her parents Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour onside, despite his insistence that all she must do is work for an Oxford education. Thus the hypocrisy when she announces she's getting married and he says in that case, you don't need to go. And rather foolishly throws her education aside, much to the consternation of teacher Olivia Williams and headteacher Emma Thompson.
Mulligan is great; she won the BAFTA and was Oscar nominated. She had been in quite few things beforehand including Pride and Prejudice, Marple The Sittaford Mystery, The Waking Dead And When Did you Last See Your Father, My Boy Jack and The Greatest (2009).
Photographed by John de Borman, edited by Barney Pilling. James Norton is briefly glimpsed right at the end.
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