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Looking for a grand(ish) gesture to sweep your sulky English major girlfriend off her feet? Do her banking. Make her breakfast. Fix her car. Mix her a drink. Then BART on over to Embarcadero tomorrow night for a super-exclusive advance screening of the 2009 Sundance award-winning film “An Education.”
It’s the story of an Oxford-bound Londoner whose delightfully taboo love affair with a man old enough to be her father catapults her into an identity crisis similar to the protagonist’s struggle in your girlfriend’s latest short story, which she totally ripped off from Graham Greene, but you told her you loved it anyway. In a Nabokov-meets-Anais Nin sort of way.
Why she’ll be excited? The film was written and produced by everyone’s favorite, or should we say favourite, contemporary English novelist Nick Hornby. Yeah, the guy who wrote High Fidelity, which lead to the film adaptation you’re probably thinking of starring John Cusack. (What is it with American girls and John Cusack??)
The screening will take place Wednesday, Oct. 7 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema at 8:30 p.m. The price of admission, admittedly somewhat steep, includes the screening, an up-close-and-personal Q&A sesh with Hornby himself, as well as a collection of Hornby’s columns from the Believer called “Housekeeping vs. the Dirt.”
While your girlfriend may scowl and tell you that she’s been a Believer subscriber since Berkeley’s own Judith Butler made the cover in 2003 and therefore has every column Hornby has ever written catalogued on her bookshelf, lovingly remind her that none of those back issues bear a personalized inscription from the author himself.
Get your tickets here.
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Tags:An Education, Embarcadero, John Cusack, Judith Butler, Nick Hornby, San Francisco, the Believer
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