"If you know, you know that first best friendship is a world unto itself lush, rugged and expansive, nutritive and intoxicating, vulnerable to freak changes in the weather. Its specific terrain stays invisible to outsiders; only the two within it know, and they themselves are likely to lose it in time. So goes the perilous trekking in Extra Geography, Molly Manners' nimble and frequently funny debut film, which astutely maps the peaks and valleys of one charged friendship between two adolescent girls at an English"
"They move in playful unison, share beds and mannerisms, hold common goals (Oxbridge) and disdain (for boys, and those who covet them). Manners, a Bafta nominee for her work on the better-than-it-should-be Netflix series One Day, is particularly attuned to the energizing rhythm of platonic-ish intimacy; the first third of this brisk, 94-minute film is a mesmerizing symphony of female mind-meld, the girls slamming lockers, opening notebooks, flopping on the floor and hatching plans to a swift, synchronous beat."
"Extra Geography, adapted by playwright and Succession writer Miriam Battye from Rose Tremain's short story of the same name, follows in the welcome tradition of Booksmart and Honor Society teen movies in which the female protagonists are prickly, unapologetically and even savagely ambitious, motivated by prestige far more than lust. (Battye's writing shares with the otherwise unrelated HBO show a spiky, propulsive quality.) The girls believably endeavor to spend their summer break improving their chances of Oxbridge entry, by proving themselves worldly."
Extra Geography follows Minna and Flic, two Year 10 girls at an English boarding school, whose intense friendship mixes playfulness, shared ambitions and synchronized rituals. The film captures their early-2000s intimacy through nimble, frequently funny scenes and a mesmerizing first act of platonic mind-meld. Galaxie Clear and Marni Duggan portray the pair with lived-in texture as they pursue Oxbridge entry and disdain boys. Molly Manners directs with attentiveness to rhythm and tone; Miriam Battye adapted the script from Rose Tremain’s short story. The film channels teen-comedy contemporaries like Booksmart while emphasizing ambition, vulnerability and the fragile geography of friendship.
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