I liked 'An Education' - I even bought the DVD since the movie never got a wide release here in the Philippines. Well, you could see some semblance of how that movie was directed here in One Day - especially in the second half of the movie where everything begins to unravel very quickly. In 'An Education', you can feel the tension that arises as soon as the lead character discovers a new and different world. I haven't actually read the novel yet but I feel there are some things that have could have been spelled out well in the novel but just couldn't be threshed out well on screen. After the wonderful first few scenes, the movie kind a dragged a bit in the middle, before getting its footing again as it escalates quickly towards the tragic ending.
Performance-wise, both Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess do particularly well! Even Patricia Clarkson, who is severely underutilized here - and whose story as the mother of Jim, is largely ignored in the movie. There are some cute scenes, there are some that don't really work - and you could sense it from how the audience reacts to the couple. Interestingly, I was wondering to myself, what if an actual British actress did this part - perhaps Keira Knightley - how would the chemistry have changed? Anyhow, that's water under the bridge now.
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