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Mansfield Park

Drama Fanny Price, a precociously intelligent young woman, is sent by her impoverished parents to live with her mother's wealthy sisters and family in order to benefit from the intellectual and social education, as well as material comforts, that their status affords. Fanny, of native wit, budding writing talents and a late-blooming audacity, responds well to the new environment, despite being treated as a second-class citizen by her aunts, ... [+]
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United States
SFGATE
"Intelligence and beauty -- and teasing romance -- shape Mansfield Park into a gorgeous, enchanting experience" 
United States
Chicago Sun-Times
"This is an uncommonly intelligent film, smart and amusing too, and anyone who thinks it is not faithful to Austen doesn't know the author but only her plots."
United States
Los Angeles Times
"It's an interesting take, and it always holds our interest, but it's finally too ham-fisted to be a completely winning one."
United States
Newsweek
"Rozema's handling of the entangled amours and social gamesmanship at Mansfield Park is delightful and the open-minded moviegoer will have a hard time resisting this stylish and stirring movie"
United States
Austin Chronicle
"A confusing jumble of historical drama and modern social essay that only serves to cloud the whole field of Jane Austen studies."
United States
The New York Times
"Ms. Rozema has made a film whose satiric bite is sharper than that of the usual high-toned romantic costume drama" 
United States
Time
"Well acted, and it achieves a strong, smart, engaging life of its own."
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