![]() 1) The film's structure is unexpectedly brilliant This is Whit Stillman, director and writer of Love & Friendship. It will be hard to find a sharper comedy this summer than Love & Friendship (which will arrive on Amazon Prime later in the year, for all you streaming fans). In Love & Friendship, for better or worse, she's the Walter White of polite British society, charging into quiet drawing rooms with only her self-interest in mind and attempting to finagle her way into an advantageous marriage, all while marrying off her daughter to someone the poor girl has no interest in. What's more, it just might make you a believer in Kate Beckinsale, who had a number of rich roles in British film and TV before she broke through in the US with Pearl Harbor and mostly ended up playing a bunch of wives and girlfriends. But it's mostly an incredibly funny comedy of manners about how to deal with those unpleasant people who insist on forcing themselves into your life. The new adaptation of her novella Lady Susan (confusingly, Austen also wrote a novella called Love and Freindship, but this film is not an adaptation of that) has its romantic elements, sure. ![]()
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