Extra Geography
- Director: Molly Manners
- Writer: Miriam Battye, Rose Tremain
- Producer: Farhana Bhula, Sarah Brocklehurst, Philip Burgin, Charles Dorfman, Solomon Golding, Wendy Griffin, Tom Harberd, Benji Strange, Marlon Vogelgesang
CGiii Comment
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.
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
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Cast & Characters
Marni Duggan (as Flic)
Galaxie Clear (as Minna)
Iyla Sundarsingh McKaig (as Chemistry Chloe)
Aarti Panesar (as Chemistry Callie)
Laila Barwick (as Crying Year 7)
Alice Englert (as Miss Delavigne)
Aoife Riddell (as Phoebe)
Shvorne Marks (as Miss Hill)
Jairaj Varsani (as Lysander)
Cody Mitchell (as Demetrius)
Zac Hurren (as Bottom)
Gabriel Nagy (as Oberon)
Allison Saxton (as The Librarian)
Elle McCloskey (as Clare Deacon)
Marni Jae Moore (as Auditioning Girl)