Ginger & Rosa

Sally Potter : 2012

London in 1962 and two teenage girls, Ginger and Rosa, are inseparable. They play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. Ginger fears annihilation and is preoccupied with the Cold War and the mounting threat of nuclear devastation. Rosa is defiant and her revolution is sexual, a form of protest that will irrevocably impact on their families. The left-leaning adults, Ginger's carefree bohemian father, her frustrated mother and her mother's politically active friends all give lessons on freedom and responsibility that prove flawed and hypocritical when turbulent reality encroaches on idealism. But as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered by the clash of desire and the determination to survive. Drawn from her own memories, Sally Potter's drama of teenage friendship overshadowed by the Cuban missile crisis is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war Britain.