Ginger & Rosa (2013)

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

you don't watch a movie just because of the performance, fiction movie is supposed to come with a story that can follow the dramatic logic of the plot. the main problem is the lack of the correct characterization. characters remain on the surface and the writer loses the chance to draw a deep well defined character, also the writer's interest to judge the society makes the characters weak and passive. The stories problem is nobody cares enough to do anything and this'd could be a good point if the writer wasn't too involve with some personal desires. Ginger is a confused character not only in her life but in the structure of the story. Obviously she doesn't know what she want. She is too much under influence of the events around that she cannot participate in her own life and then finally she ends up in jail. An activist character that all has done is reading some poems and hiding her face behind a pillow. And this character ends up in prison for no real reason. Writer I is unable to convince audience of the process of the character.

Such a great film and I loved watching it. If you enjoy films which are based in the 1960's I'm sure you will love this film. A great piece of art work and a great story. This film was recommended to me by a well know cinematographer because of the great use of lighting and camera work and he has not disappointing me. Silent scenes are on point, soundtracks are on point and the feel was defiantly there. At the end of the film I was so into the whole story I was touched by the outcome. I don.t want to give away the story in this review, but it is very well written. Overall I think that it was a great piece of art with a great story. Well taken and acted by the cast. I don't think the film had such an impact on me that I will remember it for the rest of my life like some of my favorites films, but still not a disappointment. Well done to everyone in making this film!

For those that like cerebral, intense, and absorbing British dramas, this may be your cup of tea (no pun intended). The movie is set in London, in 1962, during the Cold War and at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the United States and the Soviet Union seemed headed to a confrontation that could have triggered a nuclear war.Elle Fanning, in her best performance yet, is mesmerizing as Ginger, a sensitive and intelligent 17 year old, who wants to be a poet. She's greatly affected by the impending showdown between the world's two superpowers. I can understand this, as I was her age at the time and wasn't sure I'd be coming home from school when the U.S. was ready to board an incoming Soviet ship, in the American blockade of Cuban waters.Ginger begins to attend meetings advocating nuclear disarmament, and joins a Ban The Bomb march. Her best friend Rosa, also wonderfully portrayed by the Australian actress Alice Englert, who reminds me of a young Emily Blunt, is much more of a free spirit. She's more interested in boys rather than world affairs, but also is quite religious.Alessandro Nivola also gives a fine performance as Ginger's father Roland, who's a pacifist and who was jailed during WW2 when he claimed conscientious objector status. He can be very charming but also smug and self-centered and prides himself in disobeying the rules of society. He's also having marital problems with his wife Natalie (Christina Hendricks), Ginger's mother, and their constant arguing also weighs heavily on the teen.Roland and Natalie eventually separate and Ginger decides to go live with her father. This means that Rosa will be spending more time with them. When Rosa and Roland begin an illicit affair they seem to be clueless or cruel in their intentions on the effect it's having on Ginger. This will all lead to very tragic consequences.I must mention that 3 great actors add so much to the film in supporting roles. Timothy Spall as Mark, Oliver Platt as Mark Two,and Annette Bening as Bella are all friends of Ginger and her family, and help Ginger as she struggles to cope with life.The British filmmaker Sally Potter did an impeccable job here in writing and directing this movie. It's not for everyone, but I would recommend it for those that really like an intense, emotional film.

Ginger & Rosa is a deceptive title because this slight tale is intensely about Ginger (Elle Fanning), whose life is affected by Rosa (Alice Englert), but still defined by her own sense of herself and her notions of right and wrong.A minimalist treatment of seventeen-year old Ginger as she faces crises personal and global, this portrait captures her emergence from happy childhood, certified by a perpetual smile, into a thoughtful young woman whose demeanor reflects her growing cynicism about the world and the people she loves.Her London and the world in 1962 are awash in nuclear fear, crystallized in the Cuban Missile Crisis; Ginger is deeply concerned about the potential of the end of that world, so much so that she attends a rally for nuclear disarmament. Her father, Roland, is a free thinker who has influenced her autonomous thinking but whose own libertarian ways threaten Ginger's sense of the right balance as she sees it.Leaving her mother to stay with her father in effect untethers her from maternal protection and throws her into a world where even her best friend, Rosa can no longer provide her a sense of security. As Ginger loses faith in her father, her best friend also threatens to blast her sense of proportion in a growingly hostile world.The common antidote for this cynicism is forgiveness, as the world both macro and micro, is rife with disappointment. The minimalism doesn't always work in the film's favor, for the development of the plot, begging a full resolution of Ginger's relationship to the world, her family, and her friend, leaves me needing another ninety minutes.Ginger and Rosa, better than any other films of its kind in recent memory, carries the angst of the '60's in to 2013, and while obsession with the bomb has faded, the disappointments of young teenage girls over the imperfect world are constant and their optimism still intact: "Despite the horror and sorrow, I love our world." (Ginger)