Extra Geography Film Explores Teenage Love — SkimNews
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- Rose Tremain previously named a film of her novel Restor as her biggest disappointment, making this new adaptation of her work a chance to set things right
- The new film Extra Geography updates Tremain's 1950s-set story to the early 2000s while preserving its focus on teenage relationships
- Tremain, the cast, and the crew describe the early friendships at the story's centre as 'huge romances,' recalling the intensity of teenage bonds
- The cast and crew argue the story's themes of teenage love have not dated, despite the shift from 1950s to early 2000s settings
Why it matters: A respected literary author revisiting her own material for the screen — after a previous adaptation she called her biggest disappointment — gives the new film a personal stamp, and the decision to relocate the story to the early 2000s tests whether Tremain's portrait of teenage intensity still reads as fresh to modern audiences.
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