Dimensions
145 x 220 x 28mm
***PRAISE FOR LOVE & FRIENDSHIP - THE FILM***
'A DEVIOUS DELIGHT' Guardian
'THE WITTIEST AUSTEN ADAPTATION TO GRACE THE SCREEN' The Times
'JANE AUSTEN HAS NEVER BEEN FUNNIER' Telegraph
'WHIT STILLMAN IS THE MODERN CINEMA'S JANE AUSTEN' New Yorker
'A SUPREMELY ELEGANT AND DELICATELY FILIGREED ADAPTATION' Variety
JANE AUSTEN'S FUNNIEST NOVEL IS ALSO HER LEAST KNOWN - UNTIL NOW.
Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands - and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest's wife and the title of 'most accomplished coquette in England', Lady Susan must rethink her strategy.
Unannounced, she arrives at her brother-in-law's country estate. Here she intends to take refuge - in no less than luxury, of course - from the colorful rumors trailing her, while finding another avenue to 'I do'. Before the scandalizing gossip can run its course, though, romantic triangles ensue.
With a pitch-perfect Austenian sensibility and wry social commentary, filmmaker and writer Whit Stillman cleverly re-imagines and completes one of our greatest writers' unfinished works. As much homage to its muse's perennial influence as testament to its author's brilliance, Love & Friendship is a sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Austen and Stillman fans alike.
A SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING JANE AUSTEN'S ORIGINAL NOVELLA AS ANNOTATED BY THE NARRATOR.
