This is intimate, intense coming-of-age drama, which is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war Britain.
A mushroom cloud fills the screen to signal that this is 6 August 1945, the day the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It's also the joint birthday of Ginger and Rosa.
This is a film which is seen through the eyes of impressionable young teenager, Ginger, who finds herself increasingly estranged from her mother and drawn further into the world of her pacifist and anti-nuclear activist father. As the Cuban Missile Crisis escalates - and it seems the world itself may come to an end - the lifelong friendship between Ginger and Rosa is also shattered. Leaving Ginger clinging to one hope: if she can help save the world from extinction, perhaps she too will survive this moment of personal devastation.
Audiences will be delighted to see well-known actors and actresses in this emotional and dense British Drama.
The title roles are played but Ella Fanning who is outstanding in this role and Alice Englert who is the daughter of renown film director Jane Campion in her first feature film.
The cast includes British favourites such as Timothy Spall and Jodhi May. The films also has American favourites such as Annette Bening and Christina Hendricks.
*Fanning ... comes of age with a luminous and astute central performance – her best yet* The Telegraph
*Fantastic performances, especially from the young stars, make up for moments of artificiality.* Film Four
Watch the trailer below:
Ginger & Rosa is screening on Friday 7th at 7.45pm, Saturday 8th at 10.45am & 7.45pm, Monday 10th at 2pm & 7.45pm
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