Mostly in French, with some English thrown about, Piani's "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" simultaneously makes you roll your eyes and grin like an idiot, an impressive feat that's accomplished ...

Repressed passions, thwarted ambitions and Empire-waisted gowns aren’t just Regency-era relics in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” a low-tonnage pleasure bomb aimed straight at anyone who ...

‘Jane Austen ... ‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ is an atypical romance as the protagonist’s happiness is not solely reliant on finding love. Romantic fiction has been giving women ...

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked ... teenager by the smart women and foolish choices, happily avoided, created by the author and life-wrecker of this ...

Besides Shakespeare, no author may haunt the screen more than Jane Austen. Her novels, full of heroines who find love and usually a life lesson or two, practically spawned the romantic comedy.

The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked ... disheveled hair. There should be Instagram accounts devoted to her navy hooded parka. Life isn’t ...

What became the charming “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” took some years to grow ... it was written by men: women were beautiful or miserable or evil. She created something that is extremely ...

Repressed passions, thwarted ambitions and Empire-waisted gowns aren’t just Regency-era relics in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” a low-tonnage pleasure bomb aimed straight at anyone who ...

The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked ... disheveled hair. There should be Instagram accounts devoted to her navy hooded parka. Life isn’t ...