Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship opened in Bellingham yesterday to a happy crowd of - wait for it - older women. Genuinely puzzled, my daughters, whom I had brought with me to the screening, commented on the sea of graying feminine heads. Jane Austen, so the perception goes, is just for…

Melissa Tamminga

A freakin' delight that understands the acidic satire and deep affection of Austen's writing more than most adaptations. Very, very dry and funny, never treacly, but not robotic. So, in other words, a Whit Stillman movie.

David Sims

83 What do you call someone who doesn't like this? A bit of a rattle. Whit Stillman's mastery falls in line with the confined structures and rooms of Austen's sharp, blistering snark, so it's only a matter of time before he tackled her work directly, settling…

SilentDawn

i just love comedic period pieces about sexually adventurous women in the 18th century who don’t give a f. call me a ~genre enthusiast~

siobhan

"Reminds me of the 12 commandments." "I believe there are only ten." "Really? Which two to get rid of, then?"

Sam B.

more jane austen sitcoms like this pls

˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗

I’ll have more on this in a few days, I want to see it again. But as of right now, it’s easily the best film of 2016. Whit Stillman adapting Jane Austen works better than I imagined, seamlessly merging his comic rhythms into the Regency dialogue and story structure of her…

Sean Gilman

Almost any person on the planet can manipulate someone to do what they want, but the real challenge is getting them to think it was their idea all along. That's right: Lady Susan is INCEPTION.

Blain LaMotta

59/100 Whit Stillman adapting Jane Austen is almost too perfect—and that's especially true of Lady Susan, whose title character is orders of magnitude more duplicitous and destructive than any of the heroines in Austen's proper novels. (It's as if Lydia had been the…

Mike D'Angelo