Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Ginger & Rosa [videorecording] / BFI and BBC Films present an Adventure Pictures production in association with The Match Factory ... [et al.] ; producers. Christopher Sheppard, Andrew Litvin ; writer/director, Sally Potter.

Publisher, Date:

Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, 2013.

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Two teenage girls, Ginger and Rosa, are inseparable: they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers₂ frustrated domesticity. 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 grow up.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature disturbing thematic material involving teen choices-- sexuality, drinking, smoking, and language.

Subjects:

Teenagers -- England -- London -- Drama.

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Influence -- Drama.

Responsibility -- Drama.

Fiction films.

Coming-of-age films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Sheppard, Christopher.