British film reframes teenage romance as a story of friendship
A new British film adapts Rose Tremain’s semi-autobiographical story *Extra Geography*, moving its 1950s boarding-school setting to the early 2000s. Tremain says the story still feels relevant, and the filmmakers see its intense teenage relationships as a way to explore friendship as much as romance.
The plot follows Year 10 pupils Minna and Flic, ambitious friends who decide to fall in love with the first person they see, their geography teacher Miss Delavigne. Playwright Miriam Battye expanded Tremain’s five-page story into a 90-minute screenplay, drawing on her own experience of an ambitious girls’ school in the north of England. Director Molly Manners was drawn to Battye’s sharp, truthful dialogue.
- Rose Tremain’s story has been adapted into a new British film.
- Two ambitious pupils make a pact to fall in love.
- The film centres on friendship and teenage intensity.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “‘These early friendships are huge romances’: Extra Geography’s lessons in teenage love”.