The director of "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" was inspired by Austen's ability to be both entertaining and deep.

Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

Driving through the countryside, aspiring author Agathe (Camille Rutherford) and grumpy literature professor Oliver (Charlie ...

Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to attend a writing residency named after ...

Laura Piani’s ode to a beloved author delivers on its promise of gentility, gracious settings and mostly frictionless romance ...

Besides Shakespeare, no author may haunt the screen more than Jane Austen. Her novels, full of heroines who find love and ...

Some of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” takes place at Shakespeare & Company, the longtime independent bookstore on Paris’ Left ...

Laura Piani's rom-com about a love-challenged French writer is more "Persuasion" than "Emma," but still finds its own pains ...

It may be utter fantasy, but it’s the kind of escape you’ll want to revisit again and again, like a favorite Austen novel.” ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life follows an aspiring writer who, dealing with troubles in her love life in Paris, takes refuge in ...

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

A Parisian bookseller goes to a literary residency in England and becomes entangled in a love story in Laura Piani’s rom-com.