Love & Friendship

Best of all, unlike female schemers in movie comedy going back to Stanwyck, Lady Susan never has to submit to a leading man to restore some dim idea of the natural order.

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Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny spin intrigues, break hearts and flirt with scandal just as effectively in the 1790s setting of “Love” as they did in “Disco,” which took place in the early 1980s.

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At times, most often when Mr. Bennett is onscreen, Love & Friendship is howlingly funny, and as a whole it feels less like a romance than like a caper, an unabashedly contrived and effortlessly inventive heist movie with a pretty good payoff.

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Kate Beckinsale plays an uncharacteristically viperous Jane Austen heroine in Whit Stillman's characteristically droll comedy of manners.

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Love & Friendship is pure pleasure, from the lavishly precise sets and costumes to the pitch-perfect tone. It’s self-consciously mannered and merrily playful; a mixture that Austen herself might find just right.

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Love & Friendship is such a thoroughgoing delight that it’s tempting to riffle through Austen’s other works to find something else for Stillman to make into a film. As adaptations go, this is a match made in heaven.

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The direction, writing, photography and performances make it worth seeing, though—in particular Samuel's and Beckinsale's, and Bennett's brilliant turn as Sir James Martin, a grinning ninny who's so hilarious that you can't feel contempt for him, only affection.

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No Austen adaptation, even the most revisionist ones, has ever felt as vicious as Love & Friendship.

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Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austen and comes up with one of the best movies of the year.

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"Love & Friendship" flips the script. It's securely in its proper time and place, but this is an unusual side of Austen, cooler and more nakedly cunning. It feels very modern indeed.

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Stillman gives the romantic roundelay a deliciously modern feminist twist that ends up being a bit too slight and patly resolved, but over all too soon.

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Jane Austen fits Whit Stillman like a glove in the witty Love & Friendship.

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In Love & Friendship’s world, courtship among the landed gentry is a chess match played between women, with men as the witless pieces.

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Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny reunite with director Whit Stillman for a witty adaptation of Jane Austen’s early novella Lady Susan.

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'Love & Friendship': Kate Beckinsale rocks the crinolines in latest Austen adaptation.

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Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny reunite with their 'Last Days of Disco' director Whit Stillman for an adaptation of a Jane Austen novella.

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Instead, she’s our heroine – and what wicked good fun it is watching this bad girl do her worst.

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