Film: Love à la Netflix
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Reading time: 2 min.
Kisses in the rain, cuddling in the park, capers after a terrible discovery: In the romantic drama “My Oxford Year,” a student begins an affair with her lecturer.
This story conjures up a sense of déjà vu of at least 1,000 other similar films. In the Netflix drama "My Oxford Year," a good, nerdy girl meets a bad boy. She's American, he's British; she's poor, he's rich; she's young, he's a bit older. The backdrop for this culture clash is the elite university of Oxford, which is staged with a strong "dark academia" aesthetic, a melancholic and gently romanticized view of life at a top university. The film is based on Julia Whelan's 2018 novel of the same name.
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