AN EDUCATION: JUST WHO IS GETTING SCHOOLED?!

"So, what you're telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country is bored! There's no life in it, or color, or fun! It's probably just as well the Russians are going to drop a nuclear bomb on us any day now. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my... Jew, and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun! It's not enough to educate us anymore Ms. Walters. You've got to tell us why you're doing it."

Why indeed. Set on a hormonal teenage roller coaster, this film follows the passionate path a young girl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) takes in search of what she thinks it means to become a woman; a worldly woman. Bright and bored with school, she is quietly seduced by the older and terribly dashing David (Peter Sarsgaard) who shows her an exciting and dangerous world that makes her feel alive and noticed. Another story of a young girl blindly falling for a smooth talker. Her education is both academic and of the world. Mulligan is a sweet and tender, fresh face who takes us along for the ride and shares her heartbreak and pain. A gentle coming of age story, it also includes the family dynamic. Alfred Molina is a wonderful, well meaning father even if he bumbles a bit. He too is educated by the end of the film both about his choices and his daughter's. It is a very good story with brilliant acting all around. Sarsgaard is smarmy and terrible and wonderful all at the same time and I love him.

Bite: A tender film about a young girl's life and love lessons.