Together, this class of celebrity makes up the archetype of the Lit Girl. A spin on the traditional It Girl, the Lit Girl is ...

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 usually a life lesson or two, practically spawned the romantic comedy. So no ...

A hopeless romantic working in a bookshop meets Jane Austen's great-nephew in the new French rom-com "Jane Austen Wrecked My ...

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

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

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. An engaging new French film, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” (or, “Jane Austen a gâché ma vie”) is a catchy, provocative title for writer/director Laura ...

Star Camille Rutherford and writer/director Laura Piani spoke with UPI about their literary-inspired romantic comed,y "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," in theaters Friday.

In the two centuries or so since her soothing observations of the pains of repeated dinner invitations were unfurled before us, has Jane Austen ever managed to wreck anyone's life? We Austen ...

But that’s all bull——. At least I know that now.” So, does Agathe get her Jane Austen happy ending? You’ll have to watch the film to find out. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life opens in theaters May 23.

“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” a Sony Pictures Classics release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for “some sexual content, nudity, language.” Running time ...