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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: A Writer Confronts the Terrors of Romance and a Blank Page in Laura Piani’s Charming Debut Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the ...
A French film about English author Jane Austen? No, a delightful contemporary French comedy, partly in English, about a young French would-be author who admires Jane Austen but who can’t seem to ...
France is keeping the tradition of the romantic comedy alive with Jane Austen Wrecked My Lif e—aka Jane Austen a gâché ma vie, in French— a new, modern French rom-com that captures the ...
Jane Austen stands at a crossroads. Having rejected a marriage proposal that would have secured her financial stability, she makes a bold and courageous decision to dedicate her life to writing.
HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- This year marks the 250th anniversary of author Jane Austen's birth. The renowned English novelist, primarily known for six books, still has legions of fans around the world.
Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” played by the luminous Camille Rutherford, hasn’t so much been ...
“Northanger Abbey” is the least beloved of Jane Austen’s six novels. It also appears frequently in university-level literature classes. These two things are related. Completed largely in ...
Take Laura Piani’s “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.” The opening title cards look extremely familiar. They use the Windsor Light Condensed font, which every cinephile will recognize from Woody ...
Let me be clear right up front here: Some of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” takes place at Shakespeare & Company, the longtime independent bookstore on Paris’ Left Bank, and most of the rest ...
Filmmakers have been mining writer Jane Austen’s novels for screenplay material for decades. You can go all the way back to 1940 for the deluxe Hollywood studio ...