Extra Geography
In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.
+ MoreIn an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.
In her thoroughly funny, stylish debut feature, Molly Manners (In My Skin, One Day) offers a wry, poignant story about best friendship. Brought to life through standout debut performances from Galaxie Clear and Marni Duggan, Minna and Flic exist entirely in each others’ worlds — their perfectly synchronous thoughts and movements playfully accented by Manners’ visual style. Charming, adorably self-centered, codependent, and snide, they audition together for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (despite Shakespeare being rubbish) and — knowing that love makes one “worldly” — decide their school project will be to fall in love with the first person they see: their geography teacher (Alice Englert). They hatch a plan, enamored of their own cleverness (“We should probably dream about her.”), but their synchronicity soon falters. Extra Geography offers a bittersweet lesson in unsinkable friendship: in life, love, and Shakespeare, someone always gets upstaged. — JN
Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 29–February 1) and credentialed press and industry (January 28–February 1).
Credits
- Director(s)
Molly Manners
- Screenwriter
Miriam Battye
- Producer
Sarah Brocklehurst
- Based on a Story by
Rose Tremain
- Director of Photography
Andrew Commis
- Editor
Joe Randall-Cutler
- Production Designer
Melanie Allen
- Costume Designer
Emma Rees
- Hair/Makeup Designer
Kat Morgan
- Composer
Arthur Sharpe
- Music Supervisor
Sadie Matthew
- Casting Director
Lucy Pardee
- Principal Cast
Marni Duggan
Galaxie Clear
Alice Englert
Aoife Riddell
- Company
HanWay Films Limited
- Contact
Gabrielle Stewart
info@hanwayfilms.com
02072900750
Meet the Artist
Molly Manners
Molly Manners is a BAFTA-winning director. She is best known for the Netflix series One Day, which received three BAFTA nominations including best director. Before this, she directed the critically acclaimed series In My Skin 2 (BBC 3/ Hulu), for which she won a BAFTA. Extra Geography is her feature film debut.
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