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Credit: Reuters/Brett Gundlock By Christine Kearney NEW YORK | Tue Oct 9, 2012 11:17am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - British filmmaker Sally Potter's new film about the inseparable friendship between two teenage girls set in Cold War-era London has gained praise as a return to cinematic form for Potter and a powerful acting turn by American teen Elle Fanning. Fanning, the rising star and younger sister of Dakota Fanning, auditioned for the role at the age of 12 and adopts an accomplished British accent to play politically aware Londoner Ginger in "Ginger & Rosa," which screened Monday at the New York Film Festival. "Orlando" filmmaker Potter, 63, told a news conference that while the film features various U.S. actors including Annette Bening and Oliver Platt, she did not set out to cast Americans Fanning and Alessandro Nivola in the central roles of Ginger and her charming, pacifist father. She was searching for an unknown young English actress and scanned more than 2,000 such leads before coming across Fanning, who started acting just before age 3 and who recently caught attention in "Super 8" and other films. A giggling Fanning told reporters her blonde hair was dyed red, befitting the name of her nuclear bomb-protesting and poet title character, for the film that explores adolescence, family discord and political and moral contradictions. "I was very nervous," Fanning, now 14, said of the initial audition, noting that since Potter is British, "I was worried she was going to be judging me on my accent." But soon, such was their camaraderie, she said with excitement, "I felt like we were, sort of, a part of each other in a way." The movie, which is winning glowing reviews after debuting at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, has been hailed as a return to form for Potter since she first gained acclaim in 1992 for "Orlando," based on Virginia Woolf's novel that helped build the career of actress Tilda Swinton. " 'Ginger & Rosa' is a miracle of wing-clipping, which launches Potter back into the mainstream for the first time since 'Orlando'," said the Guardian, giving the film four out of five stars, while the Hollywood Reporter said Fanning's performance was "simply extraordinary." The film opens with an image of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima before quickly turning to early 1960s London and the bond between the curious Ginger and her darker, sexually adventurous best friend, Rosa, played by Alice Englert. 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"It was certainly my observation of the period that you could be a man, or a woman ... of really radical, free-thinking, humanitarian, forward-thinking, courageous ideas - and yet flawed in the sense of an ethical, moral, gray area where it was possible to be sort of blind," she said. Potter, who also wrote the script, said that in the early 1960s she was only slightly younger than the girls in the film and "like any writer, I scavenged mercilessly in my own life and my own memories" as well as her own imagination to write the tale. "I certainly remember the Cuban missile crisis," she said, "and what that felt like, the feeling that the world could end, like tomorrow morning ... it's not the '60s of peace and love and flowers in your hair and sexual revolution." (Editing by Jill Serjeant and Matthew Lewis) Entertainment Fashion Film Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. 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