The outcome is broader than the original, with a final twist that the novelist would not have allowed but the coquetry is as sharp as swordplay, and Tom Bennett, playing a wealthy oaf, pockets every scene in which he appears. a SIFF 2016 review Pithy, Pitch-Perfect Love & Friendship a Witty Treat. Book Of Love Review: Sam Claflin Leads Safe & Uneven Romantic Comedy. Dog Review: Channing Tatum Is Charmless In Uneven, Misguided Road Trip Drama.
(Some scholars suggest that one source for the character was Eliza de Feuillide, Austen’s cousin, whose husband was guillotined in 1794-a startling backdrop, if true, to so sprightly a tale.) The heroine, confiding her cynical schemes to an American friend (Chloë Sevigny), takes aim at various men-a rake, a decent fellow, and so forth-while making plans for her no less marriageable daughter (Morfydd Clark), whom she dislikes. A complete list of movie reviews and ratings from the Screen Rant film critics and industry experts - helping movie lovers decide which films to watch for over 15 years. Kate Beckinsale plays Susan Vernon, newly widowed. Most of these, though not all, are juvenilia, and “Lady Susan,” an epistolary novel that probably dates from the middle of the seventeen-nineties, has been transformed by Stillman into a brisk and cutting comedy of manners. Just when we thought that all of Jane Austen’s work had been exhausted by TV and cinema, Whit Stillman reminds us of the short fictions and fragments that still remain to be mined.