Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Elle FanningGinger
- Alice EnglertRosa
- Christina HendricksNatalie
- Alessandro NivolaRoland
- Timothy SpallMark
- Annette BeningBella
- Jodhi MayAnoushka
- Oliver PlattMark Two
- Oliver MilburnRoger
- Greg BennettDemo Policeman
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
A viscerally charged movie that foregrounds surface tensions and gripping performances, Ginger and Rosa is the filmmaker's most accessible and technically surefooted work to date. - 91
Portland Oregonian
It's quietly brutal stuff, beautifully acted by Fanning, Englert, Christina Hendricks and a word-twisting Alessandro Nivola. - 83
The Playlist
Beautiful, yet dark and moving, unsparing, but told with a sympathetic eye, Ginger & Rosa is sometimes relentless in its examination of emotional pain. - 80
The Guardian
This is a teenage movie that could in other hands have been precious; instead it has delicacy and intelligence. - 75
Slant Magazine
With Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter manages to avoid nearly every pratfall of such period pieces, focusing on extreme alienation rather than enlightenment, and wringing a powerful and jaundiced coming-of-age story from the decade's less trod corners. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film’s small scale is more than compensated for by its insights into adolescent awareness, the passions stoked by global causes and the moral hypocrisy of the ideologically righteous. - 60
Total Film
Spearheaded by a strikingly self-assured turn from Elle Fanning, this ’60s-set coming-of-ager follows two teenage girls whose bond starts to crumble under the emotional and political pressures of adulthood. - 60
Time Out
The most heart-wrenching thing about the film is watching Fanning’s transformation from idealist to wreck, the father’s free-thinking daughter turned into the mother’s double in the space of a dinner argument. It’s not quite enough for a film, but it is for one magnificent scene.
