(Entertainment Weekly) -- England doesn't yet swing in the transporting, ruefully tender coming-of-age drama "An Education." Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard star as a couple in "An Education." It's 1961, and Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a bright 16-year-old schoolgirl in a tidy London suburb, nurtures aspirations of sophistication that involve smoking cigarettes and dreaming of the day she can sit in a Paris cafe. Beatles-era grooviness and sexual liberation haven't yet reached this corner of the Empire, where cautious, 1950s-style postwar provincialism still prevails -- the same squareness the gents across the pond in "Mad Men" are just beginning to bend.
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Carey Mulligan does fine job as teen seeking greener pastures in "An Education"
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Film is about a girl in 1961 Britain who starts dating 30-something man
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Good performances all around, especially from Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson
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