Netflix’s Persuasion is an insult to Jane Austen. 🎬 The Regency romcom comes with impressive credentials, but it's a complete mess. 🟠 francescasteele
. In response to a question about her preferred dance habits, we even get to hear her impart the immortal anachronism: “Alone in my room with a bottle of red.” So far, so Bridget Jones.
Anne was engaged years ago to the dashing but impoverished naval officer Frederick Wentworth but was persuaded by her family to give him up on account of his lower social status. Now, as the financially insecure Elliots are forced to downsize from Kellynch Hall , Anne and the newly wealthy Captain Wentworth’s paths cross again. Neither has married. Can true love stay the course?
This Regency romcom comes with an impressive roster of heavyweight credentials: it’s written by the Academy Award-winning Ron Bass , and directed by Carrie Cracknell, former associate director of the Young Vic and the Royal Court. It’s hard to believe, then, that the film is such a mess. Perhaps producers were hoping to harness the appetite for Regency-lite sparked byis neither silly nor serious enough.
I’m all for modernising the classics but this one can’t decide if it’s trying to amuse or edify and consequently does neither. Bring back
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