Ginger & Rosa (2013) | Hollywood Movies
Synopsis
London,1962.
Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable. They skip school
together, talk about love, religion and politics and dream of lives
bigger than their mothers' domesticity. But the growing threat of
nuclear war casts a shadow over their lives. Ginger is drawn to poetry
and protest, while Rosa shows Ginger how to smoke cigarettes, kiss boys
and pray. Both rebel against their mothers: Rosa's single mum, Anoushka,
and Ginger's frustrated painter mother, Natalie. Meanwhile, Ginger's
pacifist father, Roland seems a romantic, bohemian figure to the girls.
He encourages Ginger's 'Ban-the-Bomb' activism, while Rosa starts to
take a very different interest in him. As Ginger's parents fight and
fall apart, Ginger finds emotional sanctuary with a gay couple, both
named Mark, and their American friend, the poet Bella. Finally, as the
Cuban Missile Crisis escalates - and it seems the world itself may come
to an end - the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered.
Ginger clutches at one hope; if she can help save the world from
extinction, perhaps she too will survive this moment of personal
devastation.
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