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 ...

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

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

Before you can say, “Hey, why doesn’t she hook up with Felix?” Agathe finds herself at a Jane Austen writers retreat in England (Felix submitted her application) — and is immediately staring into the ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...