Ginger and Rosa

As the nuclear threat of the Cold War meets the sexual revolution in swinging sixties London, the lifelong friendship of two teenage girls born on the day the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima is shattered by ideological differences and personal betrayals. Sally Potter’s feature, beautifully filmed by Robbie Ryan, plunges into that heady moment when change seemed just around the corner, but also offers a sobering look at the toll that this radical age took on the lives of its young activists.