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'An Education' is a coming-of-age story

It is 1961 in postwar, pre-swinging, very unmerry England, but Jenny, the precocious schoolgirl at the center of Lone Scherfig's "An Education," is brimming with ideas.

"If I get to university," she announces, "I'm going to read what I want, listen to what I want, see lots of art, watch French films and talk to people who know lots and lots."

It's a wonderful plan, just the thing for...

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