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 (Elle Fanning) is drawn to poetry and protest, while Rosa (Alice Englert) shows Ginger how to smoke cigarettes, kiss boys and pray. 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.
Ginger & Rosa is written and directed by Sally Potter. Jodhi May, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt and Annette Bening also star.
Ginger and Rosa is a Film programme that first aired in 2012 and has been classified a 12 certificate.
