It?s England in 1962. Fanning is Ginger, a sensitive 15-year-old schoolgirl who frets about nuclear annihilation and idolises Rosa [Alice Englert], her bold best friend, and Roland [Alessandro Nivola], her free-thinking dad. Fanning, who was only 13 when the film was shot, proves fresh and fluid in the lead; no wonder she?s being talked up as an Oscar contender. Nivola is equally good.
Neither Nivola, Fanning nor Englert is English and their accents are a tiny bit off, giving the film a slightly rootless feel, but bearable. Not so Christina ?Mad Men? Hendricks, who plays Ginger?s mother. She sounds like she?s been dubbed. You wish she had been.
The second half contains too many tears and way too much free verse. Ginger is forever scribbling down her thoughts on Life, Love and The Future. Long before the credits rolled, I found myself hoping that the end was nigh.
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