An Education came out on DVD last week and my hands had been burning ever since to get a copy, thank goodness for Netflix! I finally watched it this weekend and I thought it was a great film! I really liked the plot and how they developed the story but, what I loved most was the music and the costume design!!! The early sixties seemed like such a liberating era. It seems like a time when girls began to want to think, act, and do things themselves and the fashion clearly symbolizes this! I fell completely in love with the dresses that Jenny, the main character, wore; all those floral dresses, the coats, the shoes, the hair...they're all to die for! They are so simple but yet so sophisticated, I don't know, there's just something so whimsical about them.
There is this scene where Jenny is laying on her bedroom floor and and you could see that she had a floral carpet...I wish I could get one!
Another thing I loved was the soundtrack. Most of the music in the film is music that would have been heard in the early 60s which I really liked! That music reminds me of simpler times, when going going to dance was an important occasion worth of your most breath taking dress. People had class and style back then and I think it's such a shame that we've lost that!