Oooooh, have to go see this one!
Love & Friendship should be an easy sell.
It’s Whit Stillman’s version of Jane Austen.
That alone should get you into the cinema.
It’s a wonderful film; witty, warm and generous-hearted, but also spiky and tart and filled with a plethora of zingers.
It’s also cinematically an undiscovered Austen and after so many versions of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility and Emma that have, it’s refreshing to see something new.
Love & Friendship is an adaptation of young Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan, believed to have been written in the mid 1790s but revised up to a fair copy prepared in 1805 and finally published by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, in 1871.
Set in the 1790s, earlier than most Austen tales, Love and Friendship concerns beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) who has come to Churchill, the estate of her in-laws, to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances…
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looks good.
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