![]() “Lady Susan” was written as a series of letters when Austen was still shy of 20 its heroine is unusual for this author in that she’s something of a villain. It’s a film true to both the adaptor and the adapted, and it’s wonderful. ![]() “Love & Friendship” is based on an early, lesser-known novella by the maid of Hampshire, but it has the wise, worldly wit of Stillman’s “Metropolitan” (1990), “Barcelona” (1994), and “The Last Days of Disco” (1998) - movies in which streams of glittering chatter course over riverbeds of joy and pain. Over 25 years and a handful of minor classics, writer-director Whit Stillman has distilled and modernized the spirit of Jane Austen so ably that it’s a wonder he has taken so long to go to the source.
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