A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine t... Read allA look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.
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- 4 wins & 8 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaElle Fanning had her first screen kiss on this movie.
- GoofsGinger and Rosa supposedly ride upon a whirling children's roundabout, and yet their hair isn't blown about by the wind.
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[last lines]
Ginger: [sitting writing in notebook] We had a dream... that we would always be best friends. When we were born... for some it was the end. Now it seems there may not be tomorrow. But despite the horror... and the sorrow... I love our world. I want us all to live. Now, Rosa, you've asked me to forgive. One day, if Mum survives this bitter night... then we shall meet again, and I will say... I loved you, Rosa. Don't you see? But we are different. You dream of everlasting love. Not me. Because what really matters, is to live. And if we do... there will be nothing to forgive.
Roland: [sitting nearby] What are you writing?
Ginger: Oh, a poem... about the future.
Roland: I'm sorry, Ginger. I'm so sorry.
Ginger: [continues to writing] But I'll forgive you anyway.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.63 (2012)
- SoundtracksL'il Darlin
Performed by Count Basie
Written by Neal Hefti
© Cinephonic Music Co Ltd
Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd
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)
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- Mar 31, 2013
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- Ginger and Rosa
- Filming locations
- Dungeness, Kent, England, UK(various beach scenes where Ginger and Rosa walk along the beach and sit on the boardwalk.)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,012,973
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $42,838
- Mar 17, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $1,674,776
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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