Ginger & Rosa is now on release in over 100 theatres in North America. Here are extracts from some of the reviews.
“Elle Fanning is simply extraordinary.” - Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter, 09.02.12
“[Potter’s] impeccable sense of color and composition, and her use of montage and careful sound design as a kind of emotional shorthand, are used here in the service of novelistic psychological realism.” - A. O. Scott, New York Times, 14.03.13
“An empathetic and aware film, “Ginger & Rosa” is several striking things all at once. It’s an adult look at the teenage years, an examination of how personal emotions inform political action, a noteworthy change of pace for writer-director Sally Potter and, most of all, the showcase for a performance by Elle Fanning as Ginger that is little short of phenomenal.” – Keneth Turan, LA Times, 21.03.13
“Elle Fanning is heartbreakingly raw…” - Melissa Maerz, Entertainment Weekly, 19.03.13
“There is something about the simple, raw and melodiously uncompromising frankness of writer/director Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa that allows it to soar above similar coming of age dramas and instantaneously become something immediate and powerful.” - Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com, 15.03.13
“In Potter’s assured, caring hands, ‘the personal is political’ assumes newfound breadth, depth and surprising emotional poignancy… it’s also a cry from the heart.”
- Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22.03.13
“Ms. Fanning, who is younger than her character, shows a nearly Streepian mixture of poise, intensity and technical precision. It is frightening how good she is and hard to imagine anything she could not do.” - A. O. Scott, New York Times, 14.03.13
“Lovely and devastating, challenging yet worthwhile, Sally Potter’s ‘Ginger & Rosa’ may be the English filmmaker’s best since ‘Orlando’.” - Rodrigo Perez, Indiewire, 12.03.13
“…prosaic… handsomely photographed… Ms. Fanning, a young actress of seemingly unerring instincts, is a wonder…” - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, 14.03.13
“Potter also scripts and together with cinematographer Robbie Ryan creates a vivid sense of Britain, emerging from post-war austerity and facing another world crisis… This is a moving coming of age tale where you feel both the mother and daughter’s pain.” - Lucy Popescu, Huffington Post, 12.02.13
“Working from her own script, Sally Potter guides her young actresses with exquisite care….Potter’s portrait of two girls on the brink of massive change amid the thunderclap of self-realization is wrought with precision that reads as effortless onscreen, all praise to Fanning and Englert.” - Linda Barnard, Toronto Star, 28.03.13
“…beautiful, heartbreaking… If the ending explodes in a mushroom cloud of melodrama, it’s the melodrama of real life.” - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer, 28.03.13
“Potter, who wrote and directed, has an artist’s eye and a literary knack for symbols that nest inside one another like so many Russian dolls. She has crafted a near-flawless film, beautifully shot and cut, excitingly performed and deeply felt.” - Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 29.03.13
“Don’t damn it with faint praise by calling it Potter’s most ‘accessible’ film. Simply call it what it is: One of her best, and perhaps her most deeply felt.” - Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger, 15.03.13
“There’s an ache at the center of this movie that transcends time and place. It’s the ache of mortality, of unsureness about the future and discomfort in the present.” - Tom Long, Detroit News, 22.03.13
“It’s quietly brutal stuff, beautifully acted by Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks and a word-twisting Alessandro Nivola.” - Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian, 07.02.13
“This is a teenage movie that could in other hands have been precious; instead it has delicacy and intelligence.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 18.10.12
