![]() ![]() ![]() This may be a late 18th-century period piece - and a flawlessly achieved one - but it fits very smoothly into Stillman’s heavily-mannered oeuvre, where people are casually absurd and cling to traditions of a past they never actually knew. Funny, appealing, civilized - and fully aware of the artifice holding it all together. It is Austen - reasonably at least - with a touch of Oscar Wilde and full-on Whit Stillman. Where Joe Wright took some of the starchiness out of Jane Austen with his Pride & Prejudice (2005), Stillman’s adaptation of Lady Susan, Austen’s posthumously published novella, brings in extra starch to make the comings and goings and frettings and plottings and pompous posturing just that much more comic and affected. High on the list of must-see 2016 films is Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship - a movie I liked a lot on one viewing but fell in love with on the second. ![]()
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