Ginger and Rosa

Ginger and Rosa is a 2012 film directed by Sally Potter and distributed by A24. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2012, and is scheduled to be released on 19 October 2012 in the United Kingdom, then on 1 February, 2013 in the United States.

Plot
London,1962. Two teenage girls, Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable. They skip school together, talk about love, religion and politics and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' domesticity. But the growing threat of nuclear war casts a shadow over their lives. Ginger is drawn to poetry and protest, while Rosa shows Ginger how to smoke cigarettes, kiss boys and pray. Both rebel against their mothers: Rosa's single mum, Anoushka, and Ginger's frustrated painter mother, Natalie. Meanwhile, Ginger's pacifist father, Roland seems a romantic, bohemian figure to the girls. He encourages Ginger's 'Ban-the-Bomb' activism, while Rosa starts to take a very different interest in him. As Ginger's parents fight and fall apart, Ginger finds emotional sanctuary with a gay couple, both named Mark, and their American friend, the poet Bella. Finally, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalates - and it seems the world itself may come to an end - the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered. Ginger clutches at one hope; if she can help save the world from extinction, perhaps she too will survive this moment of personal devastation.

Cast

 * Elle Fanning as Ginger
 * Alice Englert as Rosa
 * Alessandro Nivola as Roland
 * Annette Bening as May Bella
 * Oliver Platt as Mark
 * Timothy Spall as Mark
 * Christina Hendricks as Natalie
 * Jodhi May as Anoushka
 * Oliver Milburn as Roger
 * Andrew Hawley as Tony

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