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Nov 15, 2015Nursebob rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
There are no shortcuts to happiness and in director Lone Scherfig’s disarmingly breezy coming-of-age story one adolescent girl’s first brush with romance will cost her more than she had bargained. Everyone remembers their first big crush and Scherfig captures that magical time with bright colours, awkward silences, and a soundtrack of timeless pop tunes. There is an innocent eroticism to Jenny’s ongoing seduction and Sarsgaard plays the waggish older man to perfection. More than a simple teen love story however, Scherfig examines the generation gap with warm candour balancing Jenny’s wide-eyed enthusiasm for life with the more dampened outlooks of her female teachers (a short yet vital walk-on by Emma Thompson) and the constant aura of disappointment exuded by her mother. Not the deepest film on the subject, but well-written and easy on the senses. The cast is nice to look at too.