Browsing: Sensibility

Last year, a slew of Jane Austen adaptations were announced, among them my favorite book, Pride and Prejudice, coming to Netflix, and Sense and Sensibility, Austen’s first novel that debuted in 1811, coming to theaters October 16. I was puzzled over the former, because Joe Wright’s 2005 film starring Keira Knightley is absolute perfection. (Also,…

The love stories of Jane Austen might be set in England’s Regency era of stiff gender norms and even stiffer social hierarchies, but their appeal is timeless. Austen’s novels have been adapted over and over for film and television. Sometimes they are set within their traditional setting, like Ang Lee’s rapturous Sense and Sensibility,Joe Wright’s…

Daisy Edgar-Jones dons the bonnet in Georgia Oakley’s take on the Jane Austen classic, and Catherine Zeta-Jones battles assassins in a madcap action caper