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Love & Friendship

Love and Friendship

2016

Whit Stillman

Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Fry ...

5.7

2,488

Comedy. Drama. Romance In 1790s England, Lady Susan Vernon tries to find husbands for herself and her daughter, as rumors fly about her personal life.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"A supremely elegant and delicately filigreed adaptation of Jane Austen (...) With his love of fine clothes and finer diction, Whit Stillman proves an unsurprisingly intuitive fit for Austen"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"In the same way that Stillman has brought the courtliness of another era to his modern stories, 'Love & Friendship' sees him putting a contemporary twist on venerable material"	POS
United States	Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times	"'Love & Friendship' more than delivers on the comedy of manners front, but it's also a very funny, unapologetic portrait of a diabolically clever woman"	POS
United States	Farran Smith Nehme New York Post	"The sharpest, least sentimental and possibly the best version of Austen yet (...) Lady Susan is so smoothly manipulative she could give Scarlett O’Hara a seminar (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Cheeky in its approach as well as spirited and good-natured, this enterprising adaptation (...) [The movie] remains buoyant through most of its short running time but lacks the stirring emotional hooks found in the best Austen works"	NEU
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Finally, a Jane Austen movie that's fresh and deliciously rotten at the same time (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It's the Whit Stillman movie that some of us have been waiting a long time for, and also a Jane Austen movie that goes some way toward correcting the record of dull and dutiful cinematic Janeism."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A sublime Kate Beckinsale digs into the role of her career (...) Love & Friendship is far more than amiable, it's pure pleasure and one of the best movies of the year (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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