In Laura Piani's knowing comedy, a headbound bookshop clerk finds herself not ruined by the author but charmed by the ...

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

Take Laura Piani’s “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.” The opening title cards look extremely familiar. They use the Windsor Light ...

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

The film stars Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Charlie Anson, Annabelle Lengronne, Liz Crowther, Alan Fairbairn, and Lola ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is for the book lovers, not the romance lovers. Written and directed by Laura Piani, this French ...

“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is a catchy, provocative title for writer-director Laura Piani’s debut feature, but it is a bit of a misnomer. Her heroine, Agathe (Camille Rutherford), may ...

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...

So if there’s something a bit discourteous in the title of writer-director Laura Piani’s new rom-com, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” chalk it up to the anxiety of influence. That ...