GINGER & ROSA Special Screenings

Sally Potter retraces the steps to the roots of the aesthetic and political consciousness that shaped many of the artists who came of age in the 1960s amidst social upheaval and the sexual revolution. Through Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) – both born on the day the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima – we are privy to the way in which radical shifts in society brought on internal struggles that could not always be reconciled. Potter has always been a filmmaker who pushes her narratives to the borders of avant-garde cinema. Here, it is the pacing and layers of plot that are carefully crafted to lead the patient viewer to an explosive climax, at once innovative and powerful. Fanning gives a raw and brilliant performance as a young woman simmering with intellectual curiosity who is harshly awakened to the hypocrisy of adulthood when she discovers she has been betrayed by those closest to her.