An Education

(Lynn Barber at home as a teenager ca.1960)



I have a tendency to fixate on things. While last week I was enamored with the possibility of making my photos 3-demensional, this week I’m completely preoccupied with Nick Hornby’s newest screen play, now film, entitled ‘An Education’ (set to be released in October). I'm very much a fan of his work, but this newest project however is not based on a book he wrote, it's based on the memoir of writer (and famed journalist/interviewer) Lynn Barber (shown above). Barber's autobiography, by the same title, was published by Penguin UK this last June (2009). I’ve looked and looked for a copy and have found it sort of impossible to get here, maybe it's only available in the UK? But you can go *HERE* to read the article she wrote that is said to be the inspiration for the book.



The film is described as the story of a 16 year old girl and her whirlwind romance with a much older man… “What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have... I learned about expensive restaurants and luxury hotels and foreign travel, I learned about antiques and Bergman films and classical music. All this was useful when I went to Oxford - I could read a menu, I could recognise a fingerbowl, I could follow an opera, I was not a complete hick. But there were other lessons Simon taught me that I regret learning. I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of living a lie.” -Lynn Barber’s article ‘My harsh lesson in love and life’



Great trailer and Cast:







(Below: Lynn Barber, aspiring femme fetale at Oxford ca.1965)





Sources: Photos of Lynn courtesy of the Guardian.co.uk.