Love and friendship film

He is an oasis in the midst of the arid screenplay, which. This presents a glimpse into the life of laura from isabels perspective. This movie is based on a novella jane austen wrote while still young called lady susan. Soon, shes on the hunt for a husband and one for her teenage daughter. Kate beckinsale is deliciously acerbic in whit stillmans fifth film in 26 years a mashup of two early jane austen stories. Love and friendship has to be one of the best adaptations of jane austens work yet, and is perhaps stillmans best film up to to his point as well. Based on jane austens epistolary novel lady susan, written c. Whit stillman was probably born to direct a jane austen movie. Lady susan vernon takes up temporary residence at her inlaws estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter frederica and herself too, naturally. The director of the film, whit stllman, wrote the screenplay and also a. Opportunistic, devious, shrewd, calculating, cunning, unprincipled. This has freed him up to bring a more improvised, witty comedy of manners to.

While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical lady vernon decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant. Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenthcentury english society, this exquisite adaptation of jane austens novel stars kate beckinsale as a. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Its refreshing because hes taken this early unfinished manuscript and been able to supplement it, rather than reduce it as with her better known works. The film follows recently widowed lady susan in her intrepid and calculating exploits to secure suitably wealthy husbands for her daughter and herself.

There were two limited releases in that group, love and friendship and tale of tales. Yet this isnt an act of revisionism so much as a reorientation. The director whit stillman adapting jane austen is one of those ideas that sounds like its made up because its so perfect, like wes anderson announcing that hes going to make an animated film about foxes based on a book by roald dahl. The delight of its director, whit stillman, enlivens every scene, so what might. It is a film of surfaces and cynicism, in which the romanticism of the more famous stories is almost entirely absent. Love and friendship the fallacy of youth plot synopsis. With kate beckinsale, chloe sevigny, xavier samuel, emma greenwell. Kate beckinsale is good as lady susan and the rest of the cast is even better. On the spectrum of period pieces, though, the director remains relatively utilitarian in his approach. This has freed him up to bring a more improvised, witty comedy of manners to light. The director whit stillman adapting jane austen is one of those ideas that sounds like its made. Love and friendship sports first class production values as well as a sophisticated literary background. Our phones were tapped by spooks when we were growing up john patterson after her father, richard, died, the underworld star.

Midway through the film gets a needed boost from tom bennett, who plays the oafish sir james martin. Whats wonderful isnt just that hes doing it, but that doing it makes certain aspects of his talent official. While it deals largely with adult situations such as discussions of marriage and cheating, as well as manipulation and passionate discussions theres almost zero iffy content, so its appropriate for tweens. The film understands so much about her incredible sense. Moonlight, love and friendship lead london film critics circle nominations both films head into the january 22 ceremony with seven nominations, while toni erdmann scores six.