By Anne Brodie BritBox’ six-month retrospective Austen Forever celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday and her tremendous legacy is underway now. On offer are films of her best-known works like Emma, Pride & Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility and modern Austen-inspired films like …
Juicy Week! Haute Couture, Jane Austen, Spies and Conspiracies, Summer Love and Animal Love.
By Anne Brodie Yet another superb performance by Lesley Manville in a film set in the world of Haute Couture. From fashion house co-director in Phantom Thread to Royal clothes horse Princess Margaret in The Crown to London cleaning lady besotted by Dior in the wonderful Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, …
Alicia Witt, a Jane Austen Heroine in Modern Persuasion
Alicia Witt, Tedra Millan and Daniella Pineda in Modern Persuasion Alicia Witt's all business as a rising exec in Modern Persuasion, a contemporary comic riff on Jane Austen’s social manners novel Persuasion, set in a Manhattan boutique PR firm. Witt’s Wren is approaching forty and happily …
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