Love & Friendship (2016)
Country: EIRE/FR/NL
Technical: col 90m
Director: Whit Stillman
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel
Synopsis:
Lady Susan is cast upon the mercies of her friends and relatives after she seduces the brother-in-law of her host and is no longer welcome there. However, her precarious situation in no way leads her to humility, and she sets about arranging a marriage for her daughter which will relieve her impecunious circumstances.
Review:
An early Jane Austen novella provides ideal material for American independent cinema's Ivy League wit-meister. He musses up the prosody with on-screen script and racy one-liners, lending a discreetly contemporary feel to Austen's ever-relevant satire. The characters and performance styles are archetypal Stillman: light, disarmingly blunt and ever so lacking in self-irony. Shot in Ireland at some handsome yet unfamiliar residences, this is a uniformly pleasant piece of froth that confirms Beckinsale's stature as not only a perennial beauty but an accomplished comedienne.
Country: EIRE/FR/NL
Technical: col 90m
Director: Whit Stillman
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel
Synopsis:
Lady Susan is cast upon the mercies of her friends and relatives after she seduces the brother-in-law of her host and is no longer welcome there. However, her precarious situation in no way leads her to humility, and she sets about arranging a marriage for her daughter which will relieve her impecunious circumstances.
Review:
An early Jane Austen novella provides ideal material for American independent cinema's Ivy League wit-meister. He musses up the prosody with on-screen script and racy one-liners, lending a discreetly contemporary feel to Austen's ever-relevant satire. The characters and performance styles are archetypal Stillman: light, disarmingly blunt and ever so lacking in self-irony. Shot in Ireland at some handsome yet unfamiliar residences, this is a uniformly pleasant piece of froth that confirms Beckinsale's stature as not only a perennial beauty but an accomplished comedienne.
Country: EIRE/FR/NL
Technical: col 90m
Director: Whit Stillman
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel
Synopsis:
Lady Susan is cast upon the mercies of her friends and relatives after she seduces the brother-in-law of her host and is no longer welcome there. However, her precarious situation in no way leads her to humility, and she sets about arranging a marriage for her daughter which will relieve her impecunious circumstances.
Review:
An early Jane Austen novella provides ideal material for American independent cinema's Ivy League wit-meister. He musses up the prosody with on-screen script and racy one-liners, lending a discreetly contemporary feel to Austen's ever-relevant satire. The characters and performance styles are archetypal Stillman: light, disarmingly blunt and ever so lacking in self-irony. Shot in Ireland at some handsome yet unfamiliar residences, this is a uniformly pleasant piece of froth that confirms Beckinsale's stature as not only a perennial beauty but an accomplished comedienne.