tMF | The Movie-Fanatic

Von Furstenberg and Gregorini knew instinctively that making a style-conscious movie about girls was a slippery slope that can lead straight to Hannah Montana. "We noticed that a lot of movies about adolescence tend to be very materialistic," Von Furstenberg says. "And trendy," Gregorini adds. "A lot of cellphones."

Instead, the directors say they went for timelessness, visually and thematically - something more like "Little Darlings" and less like "Sex and the City" meets "The Facts of Life." The film was shot in Rhode Island, in locations that included a private men's club and a boys' school, and revolves around the complex relationships between four young women: Fernanda (Rooney Mara), who falls for a married man off campus; Kate (Brie Larson), an innocent flirt who doesn't understand her own power; Lucasta (Amy Ferguson), a tomboy coming to terms with her sexuality; and the manipulative Victoria (Georgia King), whose cruelty to the other girls masks a damaged soul. [ read more ]

Georgia's route into acting was, by some measures, unorthodox. Although performance is in her blood (her father Jonathan Hyde is an actor, her mother Isobel Buchanan an opera singer and her sister, another actor, is RADA trained), she did not go to stage school, and her first role, at age nineteen, coincided with the change of direction many people undertake around that age. Some go to uni; Georgia went for a four-part BBC serial. [ read more ]