Ginger & Rosa - B

Rated PG-13, 90 minutes

"Ginger & Rosa" is a sensitive, affecting 1960s coming-of-age tale

Elle Fanning

"Ginger & Rosa" is a slow-moving but well-acted and perceptive coming-of-age story. Set in London in 1962, two teenage girls Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) are inseparable. As they dream big, issues such as the sexual revolution and nuclear warfare threaten to tear the girls friendship apart. A British-Canadian production, "Ginger & Rosa" is a lovely, sensitive film with two believable breakout performances, Fanning ("Super 8") and Australian actress Englert, seen recently in the the sci-fi fantasy film "Beautiful Creatures." The film treads some familiar themes of friendship, love and making wise choices, and reminds of some aspects of Peter Jackson's 1995 film "Heavenly Creatures," which provided the debut of Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet. The low-key film is lovingly shot and directed by "Orlando's" Sally Potter, and she effectively takes you back to another time and another place, when ideas and morals were much different than they were today. Some of the mid-section drags a bit and its seems too familiar, but Fanning and Englert are both enchanting in the sensitive tale of "Ginger & Rosa."

Wes's Grade: B