Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Whilst this is obviously a good film with an excellent cast i really struggle to love Jane Austen.
I haven't read any of her works so cannot comment on them but her adaptations are so wordy especially when compared to the likes of Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell (Both of whom i do enjoy very much). Sense and Sensibility seems to be no different. I know that come tomorrow morning all i'll recall about this film is a group of women twittering poetry to one another or crying over repressed lost loves rather than any sort of larger scale story.
Now, had Jess Franco directed it...
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