Adding a Scene to "An Education"

     Lone Scherfig's "An Education" follows a young High School student named Jenny, who is frustrated with the limitations of living in 1961 North London.  Even though she is planning to attend Oxford, she is already aware of her limited vocational options when she graduates.  Even with a degree from a prestigious University, the gender inequality in England during this time strongly inhibits its female population.  The best moments in the film are those with Jenny arguing for her need of a new life, such as when she confronts her teacher, Miss Stubbs, about the necessity of going to college when she is just going to end up "bored" for the rest of her life.  Jenny understands her future could look very similar to Miss Stubbs' life, a well educated woman teaching High School English, reading essays about a student's pony.  The prospect of this does not satisfy Jenny, who prefers the exciting atmosphere of Paris, with the films of the French New Wave, sitting in cafe's listening to Jazz, seeing great artwork in the city's many museums and galleries, this is the life she desires.   When she meets David, a man in his mid-thirties who shares her interest in this new Parisian culture, he takes her to Paris, fulfilling what was once seen as an unachievable dream.
     One would believe an important moment like Jenny finally visiting Paris would garner a lot of attention from the filmmakers.  However, all we get is a montage of Jenny and David spending a romantic evening by the Seine, and a scene where she stands on the hotel balcony smoking a cigarette after she and David had just had sex.  The Paris material is only a few minutes in length, and then we're back in London, with Jenny fawning over the great films she had seen, Jazz she had listened to.  Since we didn't actually see her having these experiences, we have to take her word for it.  What is so disappointing about the limited scenes in Paris and the lack of specific references is how the film is otherwise filled with detailed scenes, such as the conversations between Jenny, Miss Stubbs, and her parents.  The film takes a lot of care in building not only the characters but the society they live in.  I'm not arguing for long takes discussing the meaning of Francois Truffaut's films, but at least one scene to provide a context for why Jenny loves Paris so much.
     A suggestion for a scene that could have worked, have Jenny and David in a movie theater watching Jean-Luc Godard's "Vivre Sa Vie."  Godard's film is similar to "An Education" in its depiction of a young woman restricted by society.  However, the main character, Nana, is forced into prostitution, which is a tad different from Jenny's situation.  Getting back to the hypothetical scene, there is a moment in "Vivre Sa Vie" when Nana herself is in a movie theater, watching the 1928 silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc."  Godard cuts from a profile shot of Joan of Arc to a profile shot of Nana, watching the film in tears.  Scherfig could have taken this one step further, cutting from Joan of Arc to Nana, then to Jenny watching this scene, a cinematic dialogue between the three films.  While "An Education" is a very good film, referencing a specific French film would have added greatly to the already detailed world created by Scherfig.  There is the slight problem of "Vivre Sa Vie" being released in 1962 and "An Education" taking place in 1961, but that's just a technicality.