Love & Friendship

Stars
3
Rating
PG
Author
Jane Austen ("Lady Susan" novel ), Whit Stillman (screenwriting);
Length
90 min
Director
Whit Stillman
Synopsis
"Love & Friendship is a 2016 period comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman. Based on Jane Austen's epistolary novel Lady Susan, written c. 1794, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, and Emma Greenwell. The film follows recently widowed Lady Susan in her intrepid and calculating exploits to secure suitably wealthy husbands for her daughter and herself. Although adapted from Lady Susan, the film was produced under the borrowed title of Austen's juvenile story Love and Freindship. . . . In the 1790s, the recently widowed and relatively young Lady Susan Vernon seeks a wealthy match for her only daughter, Frederica, and a wealthy husband for herself, to renew the state of her fortunes. After being turned out of the Manwaring estate due to her dalliance with the married Lord Manwaring, she and her unpaid companion Mrs. Cross head to Churchill, the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles Vernon and his wife, Catherine Vernon (née DeCourcy). Lady Susan frankly discusses her plans during visits to her trusted friend, the American Mrs. Johnson." [Wikipedia]
Genre
Historical
Released
2016
Location
United Kingdom
Netflix
No

This movie is linked to the following periods

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Category
Georgian Period
1714
1837
British Isles
Jane Austen
1775
1817
People (Arts)